"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

Aretino, Pietro on friends and friendship
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."

Auden, W. H. on friends and friendship
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"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"The best time to make friends is before you need them."

Barrymore, Ethel on friends and friendship
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."

Balzac, Honore De on friends and friendship
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"Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain."

Baker, Nicholson on friends and friendship
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on friends and friendship
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