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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.
“The friend is another self.”
Aristotle
Best FriendBond
“It is more characteristic of a friend to do well by another than to be well done by.”
Aristotle
GivingCare
“No one would choose the whole world on condition of being alone, since man is a political creature and one whose nature is to live with others.”
Aristotle
LonelinessHuman Nature
“Without friendship life is nothing.”
Cicero
LifeValue Of Friends
“He who looks upon a true friend, looks, as it were, upon a sort of image of himself.”
Cicero
Best FriendReflection
“No one can live happily who has regard to himself alone; you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself.”
Seneca
KindnessHappiness
“No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.”
Seneca
SharingJoy
“You should rather consider with whom you eat and drink, than what you eat and drink.”
Epicurus
CompanyFood
“Where then is friendship? Where there is fidelity, where there is modesty.”
Epictetus
LoyaltyCharacter
“When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the virtues of those who live with thee.”
Marcus Aurelius
GratitudeJoy
“Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?”
The Bible (Proverbs 20:6)
LoyaltyRare
“A threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 4:12)
StrengthUnity
“Again, some friend is a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy affliction.”
The Bible (Sirach 6:10)
Fake FriendsHard Times
“A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.”
The Bible (Sirach 12:8)
Hard TimesTrue Friends
“Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee.”
The Bible (Proverbs 25:17)
FunnyVisits
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”
The Bible (Psalm 133:1)
UnityBrotherhood
“The superior man on grounds of culture meets with his friends, and by their friendship helps his virtue.”
Confucius
GrowthVirtue
“In regard to the aged, to give them rest; in regard to friends, to show them sincerity; in regard to the young, to treat them tenderly.”
Confucius
SincerityKindness
“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”
William Shakespeare
Fake FriendsHard Times
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”
William Shakespeare
BrotherhoodLoyalty
“My purse, my person, my extremest means, lie all unlock'd to your occasions.”
William Shakespeare
GenerosityLoyalty
“Et tu, Brute?”
William Shakespeare
BetrayalTrust
“For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings that then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
William Shakespeare
LoveTreasure
“Wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans, still we went coupled and inseparable.”
William Shakespeare
Best FriendTogether