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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.