Friendship Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about friendship.

Earl of Chesterfield

Earl of Chesterfield

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There will be friends who will openly declare our faults to us, and yet will not decide to mention our follies.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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What greater thing than to have someone with whom you dare to speak as you do with yourself?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Confidence corrupts friendship; too much contact consumes it; respect preserves it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Friendship is a perfect agreement of the feelings of human and divine things, united with kindness and mutual tenderness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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This is the first precept of friendship: To ask of friends only what is honest, and to do only what is honest for them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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As for adversity, you would hardly bear it if you did not have a friend who suffers for you more than yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Friendship begins where interest ends or when it concludes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I do not know whether, besides wisdom, the immortal gods have bestowed upon man anything better than friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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He who contemplates a true friend, is as if he were contemplating another exemplar of himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Friendship is nothing else but a total agreement in all things divine and human, with love and benevolence.

Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

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Friendship could only take place through the development of mutual respect and within a spirit of sincerity.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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Friends are my property. Forgive me for the greed of accumulating them.