Friendship

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them. But who knows such love? who has experienced it? Its true name is friendship

I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.

One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death!

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Marriage is a friendship recognized by the police.

Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.