“Friendship is a virtue or implies virtue, and is besides most necessary with a view to living.”
Aristotle
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Friendship Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FRIENDSHIP
Friendship Quotes
Read 200 of the best friendship quotes about true friends, loyalty and lasting bonds from Aristotle, Shakespeare, Kahlil Gibran, Emerson and more.
“Those who wish well to their friends for their sake are most truly friends.”
Aristotle
True FriendsCare
“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in virtue.”
Aristotle
CharacterTrue Friends
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
Aristotle
Hard TimesFake Friends
“Friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.”
Livy
LoyaltyForgiveness
“Let this be laid down as the first law of friendship, that we should ask from friends, and do for friends, only what is good.”
Cicero
IntegrityRespect
“Nature abhors solitude, and ever leans upon something as a stay and support; and this is found in its most pleasing form in our closest friend.”
Cicero
SupportBest Friend
“For what purpose, then, do I make a man my friend? In order to have someone for whom I may die, whom I may follow into exile.”
Seneca
LoyaltySacrifice
“Let us see to it that the recollection of those whom we have lost becomes a pleasant memory to us.”
Seneca
MemoriesLoss
“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go.”
The Bible (Proverbs 22:24)
Choosing FriendsWisdom
“He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.”
The Bible (Proverbs 17:9)
ForgivenessGossip
“Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:9)
AdviceJoy
“A whisperer separateth chief friends.”
The Bible (Proverbs 16:28)
GossipTrust
“Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.”
The Bible (Proverbs 19:4)
Fake FriendsMoney
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 15:33)
Choosing FriendsCharacter
“To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend.”
The Bible (Job 6:14)
CompassionSupport
“Henceforth I call you not servants; but I have called you friends.”
The Bible (John 15:15)
FaithBond
“If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him.”
The Bible (Sirach 6:7)
Choosing FriendsTrust
“For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble.”
The Bible (Sirach 6:8)
Fake FriendsHard Times
“Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.”
Confucius
Fake FriendsWisdom
“The acquaintance might be long, but he showed the same respect as at first.”
Confucius
RespectOld Friends
“Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.”
Mencius
EqualityVirtue
“I am not of that feather to shake off my friend when he must need me.”
William Shakespeare
LoyaltySupport
“Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing!”
William Shakespeare
FunnyLoyalty
“What need we have any friends, if we should ne'er have need of 'em?”
William Shakespeare
SupportValue Of Friends