Friends and Friendship

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. - Walter Savage Landor

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin

Friendship has been called the sweetener of life. It is a compound made up of truth and kindness, prudence and piety. - John Thorton

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. - Mary Wollstonecraft

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. - Samuel Richardson

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. - Baltasar Gracian

It is never easier to forget friends than when we imagine they have forgotten us – friendship, like love, requires reciprocal assurance of continuity. - Norman MacDonald

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself: we cannot force it any more than love. - William Hazlitt

You need to handle your friends with more diplomacy than you do your enemies. - Lewis F. Korns

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. - Richard Bach

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his. - Franklin P. Jones

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