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Friendship.

The bonds that connect us and the joy of true companionship.

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.”

Saint Augustine

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

Saint Augustine

“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”

“Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

Abraham Lincoln

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”

“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”

“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

Martin Luther King

“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”

“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”

Benjamin Franklin

“True friends stab you in the front.”

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”

“If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.”

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

Benjamin Franklin

“I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.”

“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”

“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”

“Boldness be my friend.”

William Shakespeare

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.”

“I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one'.”

“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.”

“In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.”

G.K. Chesterton

“To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.”

“Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

“Sin is essentially a departure from God.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them.”

“If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.”

“The dead and the absent have no friends.”

Spanish proverbs

“Little presents keep up friendship.”

French proverbs

“Failure is the greatest opportunity I have to know who I really am.”

“You get in life what you tolerate... if you tolerate disrespect, you will be disrespected. If you tolerate people being late and making you wait, people will show up late for you. If you tolerate being underpaid and overworked, that will continue for you. If you tolerate your body being overweight, tired, and perpetually sick, it will be.”

“In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.”

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

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”