Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.