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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.