Quotes about friendship. Quotes about friends with meaning True friend quotes

Friendship is the wine of existence, love is a good glass of vodka.
E.D. Bulwer-Lytton

Friendship is the harbor to which a person aspires, it brings joy and peace of mind, it is rest in this life and the beginning of heavenly life.
T. Tasso

Friendship is the only passion that does not weaken over the years.
Marquise Dudeffan

Friendship is nothing but unanimity, accompanied by mutual love and benevolence, in all human and divine affairs, in comparison with which I don’t know what is better, except, perhaps, wisdom, bestowed on man by the immortal gods.
Cicero

Friendship is a reflection of a person's personal dignity on other people.
R. Emerson

Friendship is a ship capable of carrying two in good weather, and only one in bad weather.
A. Beers

Friendship can do without love; love without friendship is not.
V. Klyuchevsky

Friendship, like love, is a rose with a luxurious color, an intoxicating aroma, but also with prickly thorns.
V. Belinsky

Friendship is when you can, for no reason at all, come to a person and settle with him.
David Samoilov

Friendship is one of the highest ornaments of human life. Its beneficial effect on a person is like love.
G. Markov

Friendship is, first of all, sincerity, it is criticism of the mistakes of a comrade. Friends should be the first to give harsh criticism so that a friend can correct his mistake.
N. Ostrovsky

Friendship in the highest and proper sense is nothing but a feeling that arises from mutual affection. It appears in the case when each of the two wants the loved one and he himself to be equally prosperous.
Alkina

The friendship of two women is always a conspiracy against the third.
A. Corr

The friendship of two saints does more evil than the open enmity of ten villains.
O. de Balzac

Friendship for a woman is a man who loved her and told her about it too late.
F. Croisset

Friendship between writers looks like love, if not by its ardor, then by envy.
Riga

Without friendship, no communication between people has value.
Socrates

In happiness it is easy to find a friend, in misfortune it is extremely difficult.
Democritus

Everything should be shared between friends.
Euripides

The friendship of one reasonable person is more precious than the friendship of all unreasonable ones.
Democritus

Unity creates friendship.
Democritus

Those who love to blame others are incapable of friendship.
Democritus

Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality.
Pythagoras of Samos

Having learned a secret from a friend, do not betray it by becoming an enemy: you will not strike an enemy, but friendship.
Democritus

The fraternal closeness of like-minded people is stronger than any walls.
Antisthenes of Athens

One of the first duties of friendship is to forestall the requests of friends.
Isocrates

Stretching out your hand to friends, do not clench your fingers into a fist.
Diogenes of Sinop

True is the ancient proverb that equality creates friendship.
Plato

Close friendship happens among people who are similar to each other.
Plato

In order to win the favor of friends, it is necessary to value their services higher than they do themselves; on the contrary, our favors to friends must be considered less than our friends believe.
Plato

Friendship is content with the possible, without demanding what is due.
Aristotle

Friendship is not only invaluable, but also beautiful; we praise the one who loves his friends, and having many friends seems to be something wonderful, and some even think that being a good person and a friend is one and the same.
Aristotle

Friendship is the most necessary thing for life, since no one wants to live without friends, even if he had all the other benefits.
Aristotle

The enjoyment of communication is the main sign of friendship.
Aristotle

Many are treats of friends, not friendship.
Menander

Of all that wisdom brings to itself for the happiness of a lifetime, the most important is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

There is nothing better and more pleasant in the world than friendship; excluding friendship from life is like depriving the world of sunshine.
Cicero Mark Tullius

In general, friendship can be judged only in relation to people of mature age and a mature soul.
Cicero Mark Tullius

A friend is like a second "I".
Cicero Mark Tullius

Friendship can be strong only with the maturity of the mind and age.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Friendship can unite only worthy people.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Friendship penetrates the lives of all people, but in order to maintain it, sometimes it is necessary to endure grievances.
Cicero Mark Tullius

True friendship must be frank and free from pretense and assent.
Cicero Mark Tullius

A true friend must be our second self; he will never demand from a friend anything but moral beauty; Friendship is given to us by nature, as an assistant in virtues, and not as a companion in vices.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Everyone loves himself not in order to receive any reward for his love, but because everyone is dear to himself. If the same is not applied to friendship, then we will never find a true friend; after all, a friend for everyone is the second he himself.
Cicero Mark Tullius

How much charm our happiness would lose if no one rejoiced in it with us! How difficult it would be to endure our misfortunes without a friend who experiences them even more than we do.
Cicero Mark Tullius

It is not safe to praise the object of your love to a friend - as soon as he believes your praises, he will follow in your footsteps.
Ovid

As long as you are happy, you have many friends; when times are dark, you are left alone.
Ovid

There are many friends; friendship is rare.
Phaedrus

The name "friend" sounds everyday, but friendly fidelity is rare.
Phaedrus

Without a comrade, no happiness pleases.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Why am I getting a friend? To have someone to die for.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Friendship ends where distrust begins.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

If you want to live peacefully, without storm,
The sorrows of life, not knowing until late old age, -
Do not look for a friend for yourself and do not call yourself a friend to anyone:
You will taste less joys, less grief.
Martial Mark Valery

I do not need a friend who, agreeing with me in everything, changes his views with me, nodding his head, because the shadow does the same better.
Plutarch

You can't get a true friend with money.
Unknown author

The question arises whether it is ever possible to prefer new friends to old ones.
Unknown author

Share your thoughts with a friend.
Unknown author

A friend is the greatest wealth in life.
Unknown author

A friend is known by love, disposition, speeches, deeds.
Unknown author

Test a friend, but love a tried one.
Unknown author

A friend cannot be offended even by a joke.
Unknown author

Iron sharpens iron, and a man refines his friend's gaze.

Whoever wants to have friends must be friendly himself; and there is a friend who is more attached than a brother.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Do not frequently enter your friend's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Whoever associates with the wise will be wise, but whoever associates with fools will become corrupt.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

A sweet mouth will increase friends, and a kind tongue will increase affection. Let there be many who live with you in peace, and let one of a thousand be your adviser. If you want to win a friend, win him after a trial and do not trust him quickly.
Old Testament. Sirach

Leave not an old friend, for a new one cannot be compared with him; A new friend is like new wine: when it becomes old, you will drink it with pleasure.
Old Testament. Sirach

Keep away from your enemies and be careful with your friends. A true friend is a strong defense: whoever finds him has found a treasure. A true friend has no price and no measure of his kindness.
Old Testament. Sirach

There is no greater love than if a man lays down his life for his friends. New Testament. Gospel of John

It is better to be in darkness than without a friend.
John Chrysostom

Better hitting friends than kissing enemies.
John Chrysostom

There is no greater joy than to see friends, there is no bitterer grief than separation from friends.
Rudaki

There is no greater joy in this world than the sight of relatives and friends. There is no more painful torment on earth than to be with glorious friends in separation.
Rudaki

"A friend is better or a brother?" - "Brother, when he is a friend, it is better."
Unsur al-Maali

It is better for a man to be without a brother than without friends.
Unsur al-Maali

Do not consider friends of the cup as friends, for they are friends of your cup, and not your friends.
Unsur al-Maali

A foolish friend out of friendship will do what a hundred reasonable enemies will not do out of enmity.
Unsur al-Maali

Wash your hands, brother, from that friend who associates with your enemies.
Unsur al-Maali

Everything will pass - and the grain of hope will not rise,
All that you have accumulated will be lost for a penny.
If you do not share in time with a friend -
All your property will go to the enemy.

If your friend becomes your enemy, then love him so that the tree of friendship, love and trust will bloom again, withered due to the fact that he was not watered with the water of friendship and was not cared for.
As-Samarkandi

Sincere friendship is based on the proximity of minds and secret laws, and not on visible signs.
As-Samarkandi

Do not shun a friend because of a little joke and do not be offended, for this is a sign of stupidity.
As-Samarkandi

A friend is a mirror for a friend, there is no mirror brighter!
Auhad al-Din Anwari

Dragging out your days without a friend is the worst of troubles.
The soul is worthy of pity, which has no friend.
Nizami Ganjavi

Indulge loyal friends, do not drive them for their actions.
How will the vessel that you have broken into shards water you?
Nizami Ganjavi

A true friend will help a friend, he is not afraid of trouble.
He will give his heart for a heart, and love is a star on the way.
Shota Rustaveli

He who does not seek friends for himself is his own enemy.
Shota Rustaveli

A wise friend will not abandon a friend, despite all the hardships.
Shota Rustaveli

It is necessary for a friend for the sake of a friend not to be afraid of trials,
To respond heart to heart and pave the way with love.
Shota Rustaveli

A desecration of friendship - This is a discord with wisdom.
Shota Rustaveli

Consider the person who removes stones and thorns from your path as a true friend.
Saadi

Your true friend who will show you the way
All obstacles will help to pass.
Flatterers beware of being friends.
That true friend is yours who is honest and direct.
Saadi

Attract friends to you by good deeds. This is the meaning of true friendship.
Abu'l-Faraj

But you distinguish between the shell and the core. Introducing yourself as a friend is not so smart.
Hisrav Dehlavi

What is alive, who did not know the friendship of the saint?
It is like an empty pearl.
Alisher Navoi

Traveler, if you are on the right path,
There will be a faithful friend to help you on that path.
Muhammad Fizuli

A comrade is a support in trouble, a doctor in illness, he is the one who sacrifices himself in a moment of mortal danger.
Sulkhan Orbeliani

A comrade is a high wall, an indestructible stronghold, a fortress reliably supplied with water.
Sulkhan Orbeliani

Don't be cheeky with your friends, otherwise your friends will be nothing but nonentities.
Hong Zicheng

Friendship, which is given for money, and not acquired by the greatness and nobility of the soul, can be bought, but cannot be kept.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever is a good friend, he also has good friends.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A friend must bear some of the friend's grief.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

If you make new friends, don't forget the old ones.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

To have many friends is to have none.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

No worldly blessings will be pleasant to us if we use them alone, not sharing them with friends.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

There can be no long-term friendship, subordination, comradeship where one does not adapt to the other.
Francesco Guicciardini

There is nothing more precious than friends; lose no opportunity, therefore, to acquire them whenever you can.
Francesco Guicciardini

A friend should be like blood flowing immediately to a wound, without waiting to be attracted.
Antonio Perez

In friendship there are no calculations and considerations, except for itself.
Michel de Montaigne

True friends are those who have "one soul in two bodies."
Michel de Montaigne

A true friend is one whom I would trust in everything that concerns me more than myself.
Michel de Montaigne

The deepest friendship breeds the most bitter enmity.
Michel de Montaigne

It's not about who you were born from, but who you hang out with.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Remember, friend: it is more difficult to find a Friend than a girlfriend.
Lope de Vega

A friend should bear the shortcomings of a friend.
William Shakespeare

True friend everywhere
Faithful, in happiness and trouble;
Your sadness worries him
You don't sleep - he can't sleep
And in everything, without distant words,
He is ready to help you.
Yes, the actions are dissimilar
Faithful friend and flatterer worthless.
William Shakespeare

Friendship is not fastened with the mind - it is easily terminated by stupidity.
William Shakespeare

Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.
William Shakespeare

There is little friendship in the world - and least of all among equals.
Francis Bacon

Friendship achieves the same result as courage, only in a more pleasant way.
Francis Bacon

Friendship doubles the joys and cuts the sorrows in half.
Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

If a person has a devoted friend, he has, as it were, two lives.
not for the fulfillment of their desires.
Francis Bacon

What, in fact, is wrong in the fact that my friend loves himself more than me?
Francis Bacon

Important friends - for important things ... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales

There is no more desolate desert than life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and alleviates troubles; consolation of the soul, it is the only cure for a hostile fate.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales

A man is judged by his friends.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales

When we lose a true friend, Nothing can heal the mental illness.
Pierre Corneille

There is nothing more dangerous than an ignorant friend.
Jean de La Fontaine

When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, of which the larger one absorbs the smaller one.
Madeleine de Scudery

If a friend reproaches you for any shortcoming, always think that he has not yet told you everything.
Thomas Fuller

Being deceived by friends, we may be indifferent to the manifestations of their friendship, but we must sympathize with them in their misfortunes.
François de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship, as in love, what brings happiness more often is what we do not know than what we know.
François de La Rochefoucauld

As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer.
François de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest feat of friendship is not to show a friend our shortcomings, but to open his eyes to his own.
François de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend is the greatest of blessings, and at the same time that blessing, the acquisition of which is least thought of.
François de La Rochefoucauld

True friendship does not know envy, and true love does not know coquetry.
François de La Rochefoucauld

Not to notice the cooling of people means little appreciation of their friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld

The most beautiful gift given to people after wisdom is friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld

The inferiority of our friends gives us no little pleasure.

True friendship matures slowly and blossoms only where people have really proved it to each other.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Diligently avoid all friendship with fools and rogues, if the word "friendship" is generally applicable in relations with such people.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

All the honors of this world are not worth one good friend.
Voltaire

The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong.
Voltaire

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother.
Benjamin Franklin

Choose a friend slowly, even less hurry to change him.
Benjamin Franklin

Friendship is a calm and quiet affection, guided and strengthened by habit, which arises from long association and mutual commitment.
David Hume

Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

He who, for his own benefit, would let down a friend, has no right to friendship.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

My friendship is too circumspect if my friend's danger does not make me forget my own danger.
Denis Diderot

Only the hand of a friend can tear the thorns out of the heart.
Claude Adrian Helvetius

... I do not know anything equivalent to the genuine friendship of an intelligent person - what a rare gem it is.
Tobias George Smollett

A friend who is useless to his friend becomes a stranger to him.
Paul Henri Holbach

Friendship is based on the benefits that friends expect from each other. Deprive them of these benefits - and friendship will cease to exist.
Paul Henri Holbach

The friendship of vicious people is unreliable; it lasts only as long as it serves mutual benefit.
Oliver Goldsmith

What is friendship? The word, the illusion that enchants us, the shadow that follows happiness and disappears in hours of misfortune!
Oliver Goldsmith

Fulfilling the duties of friendship is somewhat more difficult than admiring it.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Whoever seeks friends is worthy of finding them; whoever has no friends never looked for them.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is more difficult to fulfill the obligations of friendship than to be delighted with them.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A true gentleman is never a friend of the heart.
Edmund Burke

Perhaps, in order to fully appreciate friendship, one must first experience love.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

In the world, we have three kinds of friends: some love us, others hate us, others simply do not remember.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

Human friendship in most cases sprouts with many prickly "ifs" and "buts" and eventually turns into ordinary friendships that are kept only thanks to omissions.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

Wrong friends are swallows, which you meet only in summer; it is a sundial, the benefit of which is only as long as the sun shines.
Theodor Gottlieb Gippel

Strong friendship is our strength
Friendship glory and praise.
Robert Berne

Friendship is love without wings.
George Noel Gordon Byron

It's not so hard to die for a friend as it is to find a friend worth dying for.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Never enter into friendship with a person whom you cannot respect.
Charles Darwin

He who boasts that he has made many friends has never had a single friend.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We love friends for their shortcomings.
William Hazlitt

Friendship and community are born in people when there is a common enemy.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Friendship between a man and a woman is very weak at nightfall.
Otto von Schönhausen Bismarck

Friendship is based on the similarity of characters and interests in a common common cause, and not on the pleasure that you get from the personality of another.

In relation to your friends, you need to be as less burdensome as possible. The most delicate thing is not to demand any favors from your friends.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In the hustle and bustle of this world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life...
Karl Marx

... What happiness - friendship, similar to the one that exists between us. You know that I do not value any relationship so highly.
Karl Marx

I enter into friendship with very few, but I cherish it.
Karl Marx

Friendship is not such a miserable light to go out in separation.
Johann Friedrich Schiller

True friendship is true and courageous.
Johann Friedrich Schiller

Friendship is based on mutual benefit, on common interests; but as soon as interests clash, friendship is terminated: look for it in the clouds.
Arthur Schopenhauer

True friendship is one of those things that, like giant sea serpents, is unknown whether they are fictional or exist somewhere.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.
Arthur Schopenhauer

For friendship, any burden is easy. The universe is eternal, meetings with friends are brief.
Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky

The happiness that has never deceived me is your friendship. Of all my passions, the only one that has remained unchanged is my friendship for you, for my friendship is a passion.
Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev

Such a friendship, which does not withstand the touch of naked truth, is not worth regretting. That's where she belongs.
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev

Friendship warms the soul, a dress warms the body, and the sun and the stove warm the air.
Kozma Prutkov

Hiding the truth from friends, to whom will you open up?
Kozma Prutkov

Everyone in the world has enemies, But save us from friends, O God!

No muses, no labors, no joys of leisure,
Nothing can replace a single friend.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

We are similar in hearts; he's just me different:
I share grief with him, he shares joy with me.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Be sincere with your friends, moderate in your needs and disinterested in your actions.
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov

Sincerity of relations, truth in communication - that's friendship.
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov

Do not keep the alabaster vessels of your love and tenderness sealed until your friends are dead. Fill their life with sweetness while they are still alive. Speak words of comfort to them while their ears can still hear those words, and while their hearts can still be moved by your words.
Henry Ward Beecher

For high friendship, one condition is necessary - the ability to do without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence, I can think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to find a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't have too many friends.
Alexandre Dumas (father)

If my friends are crooked, I look at them in profile.
Joseph Joubert

Everyone wants to have a friend, but no one wants to be a friend.
Alphonse Jean Carr

The only sincere and enduring friendship is that which exists between a man and a woman, because it is the only affection free from all rivalry.
Auguste Comte

Do not try to embellish yourself for a friend: for the arrow and striving towards the Superman must be for him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

But if you have a suffering friend, become a place of rest for his suffering, but at the same time a hard bed, a camp bed: this is how you can best help him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Have you become clean air, bread and medicine for your friend? Another is unable to free himself from his own chains, but saves his friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche

They say that friends are known in misfortune, but in my opinion, they are also known in happiness.
Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov

The highest honor that my friends can give me is to follow my teachings in their lives, or to fight against it to the end if they do not believe in it.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Nothing can inspire people and help them like friendship.
Ba Jin

Friendship is a delicate flower. One careless touch - and the flower withered.
Sun Li

A bad friend is like a shadow: on a sunny day, run - you won’t run away; on a cloudy day, look - you won’t find it.
Abai Kunanbaev

You can never do too much for a devoted friend.
Henrik Ibsen

Do not judge a person only by his friends. Remember that Judas' friends were impeccable.
Ernest Hemingway

It's hard without a friend when he's lost. But it is also difficult with a friend when he is not faithful.
Aibek

Women, although they attach great importance to friendship, forget about it; men are distrustful of her, and lovers are jealous.
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget

I retired from the world, not because I had enemies, but because I had friends. Not because they harmed me, as is usually the case, but because they considered me better than I am. I couldn't bear this lie.
Albert Camus

It is wise to pour the oil of delicate politeness on the wheel of friendship.
Gabrielle Sidonie Colette

True friendship is precisely chosen kinship.
Ernest Wilfried Aeguwe

Friends do not wish us unhappiness, but they find that we are "already so happy."
Aui Legendre

Fellowship and friendship are signs of a real reconciliation with one's gender role and a real balance between the sexes.
Alfred Adler

The rich man has companions and hangers-on, the powerful man has courtiers, the man of action has comrades, and they are also his friends.
André Maurois

Less exalted, less selfish than love, friendship, devoid of any harshness, occupies hours that are not occupied by the latter. Friendship is a sure, reliable refuge from the suffering caused by love.
Marcel Prevost

A friend is someone who, whenever you need him, knows about it.
Jules Renard

There are no debtors or benefactors in friendship.
Romain Rouyan

Friends are there to help each other.
Romain Rolland

With friends, misunderstandings are never serious until a third person comes between them.
Romain Rolland

Comrades are only those who, holding on to one rope, climb the mountain peak with common efforts and in this find their closeness.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Friendship is a relationship between people that is based on trust, sincerity, selflessness. Usually friends have similar interests, hobbies, sympathies. Only in the presence of bilateral mutual affection can people be called friends.

Friends become people who have chosen in society. Therefore, the emergence of this is based on pleasant communication with each other, openness and honesty, spending time together. There is an opinion that friendship is still the fruit of a hidden subconscious Ego, as it is beneficial to at least one of the friends. In any case, friendship is an integral part of the full life of a free person, because through relationships with others we can feel, sympathize, understand, suffer, rejoice, and so on.

What are other definitions of friendship?

A good friend is a person who will help the second one to get up when he has fallen (both literally and figuratively).
A person who is near in a bad moment. Even if you don’t feel like talking about anything, a friend is someone who will be silent next to you, taking on some mental heaviness of another.
There can be many enemies, but only one friend.
Only a person who sincerely relates to another accepts him with all the advantages and disadvantages, respectively, without envy.
Only a true friend is one who can understand and accept the past, mistakes.
Only in love and friendship do people understand the value of relationships.
second happiness.
Only with a friend can you behave naturally, and not falsely, not be hypocritical.
However, a friend is not the one who fulfills every whim, agrees with everything or nods in response. On the contrary, this is a person who has his own opinion in everything, often completely different from the opinion of the first.
Nick Zeigler said very well about friendship: while others are shaking someone's hand, as if showing their disposition and imaginary sincerity, the friend simply holds this hand.
It is not necessary to be known as a friend, daily inquiring about health and business.
This is the other one who is at a far distance, but can feel your pain and answer your call instantly with a cry of despair.
Only the best friend is the one who can give fair advice and make the necessary comments. He will go boldly on any joint adventure, and he will bravely defend a friend, like himself.
When others see the smile on your face, he is the one who notices the pain in your heart and eyes.
Even if the whole world turns away from you, a friend will remain faithful to you.
If a person needs your explanations about what happened, he is unlikely to be a friendship that does not require excuses!
Do not look at the bravado of some who make you believe in their sincerity. Perhaps that humble person who quietly waits in a corner is your real friend.
A friend will come to the rescue at the first call, without referring to late time or lack of opportunity.
In the most extreme case, if a friend needs to go aside, he will leave, but he will not forget and will not betray.

True friendship can be found in many definitions, the most eloquent of which we have already given above. One thing is certain: value friendship if you have it. Life without a friend will become dull and dull! Take care of yourself and your friends!

I thought we were friends forever. Eternity turned out to be much shorter.

Do not try to embellish yourself for a friend: for the arrow and striving towards the Superman must be for him.

"Friedrich Nietzsche"

When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, of which the larger one absorbs the smaller one.

"Madeleine de Scudery"

Friendship can unite only worthy people.

"Cicero"

True friendship does not know envy, and true love does not know coquetry.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I do not need a friend who, agreeing with me in everything, changes his views with me, nodding his head, because the shadow does the same better.

"Plutarch"

Remember, friend: it is more difficult to find a Friend than a girlfriend.

"Lope de Vega"

"Aristotle"

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It's more than power. It's almost the same as a family.

Keep away from your enemies and be careful with your friends. A true friend is a strong defense: whoever finds him has found a treasure. A true friend has no price and no measure of his kindness.

Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.

"Arthur Schopenhauer"

Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.

"William Shakespeare"

True friendship must be frank and free from pretense and assent.

"Cicero"

Hatred for the same subject brings people together a hundred times stronger than love, friendship, respect combined.

My friendship is too circumspect if my friend's danger does not make me forget my own danger.

"Denis Diderot"

A true friend is one whom I would trust in everything that concerns me more than myself.

"Michel de Montaigne"

The rich man has companions and hangers-on, the powerful man has courtiers, the man of action has comrades, and they are also his friends.

"André Maurois"

The only way to find a friend is to be one.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson"

A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence, I can think aloud.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson"

He who, for his own benefit, would let down a friend, has no right to friendship.

"Jean Jacques Rousseau"

It is more difficult to fulfill the obligations of friendship than to be delighted with them.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

We love friends for their shortcomings.

"William Hazlitt"

Those who love to blame others are incapable of friendship.

"Democritus"

Wash your hands, brother, from that friend who associates with your enemies.

"Unsur al-Maali"

A true friend will help a friend, he is not afraid of trouble. He will give his heart for a heart, and love is a star on the way.

"Shota Rustaveli"

Friendship penetrates the lives of all people, but in order to maintain it, sometimes it is necessary to endure grievances.

"Cicero"

Do not frequently enter your friend's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

"Joseph Joubert"

We are similar in hearts; he is like I am different: I share grief with him, he shares joy with me.

"Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin"

Friendship is based on the similarity of characters and interests in a common common cause, and not on the pleasure that you get from the personality of another.

"Hegel"

"As-Samarkandi"

If my friends are crooked, I look at them in profile.

"Joseph Joubert"

Friendship between a man and a woman is very weak at nightfall.

"Otto von Bismarck"

Many are treats of friends, not friendship.

"Menander"

Quotes about friends

There is no greater joy than to see friends, there is no bitterer grief than separation from friends.

"Rudaki"

A desecration of friendship - This is a discord with wisdom.

"Shota Rustaveli"

Do not shun a friend because of a little joke and do not be offended, for this is a sign of stupidity.

"As-Samarkandi"

True friendship is true and courageous.

"Johann Friedrich Schiller"

Whoever wants to have friends must be friendly himself; and there is a friend who is more attached than a brother.

"Solomon"

To have many friends is to have none.

"Erasmus of Rotterdam"

If friendship falls apart after the first push, stumbles over the very first bump on the way, crumbles into dust from the wind, this is no friendship. And so, pampering is one thing, friendship - and no more.

One of the first duties of friendship is to forestall the requests of friends.

"Isocrates"

There is no friendship between a guy and a girl. She just tells him everything like her best friend, and he wants her!

The only sincere and enduring friendship is that which exists between a man and a woman, because it is the only affection free from all rivalry.

"Auguste Comte"

"Albert Camus"

The inferiority of our friends gives us no little pleasure.

"Philip Chesterfield"

There is no greater love than if a man lays down his life for his friends.

If my friend falls off the bridge, I won't run after him. It is better to stand under the bridge and catch a flying friend in time.

In practice, it always turns out that the best friend is the only one. All the rest are ordinary friends or acquaintances who suddenly happened to be nearby during this period.

How easy it is to pronounce the word "friendship", but not everyone is able to be friends, so this concept in life should be highly valued.

Having common property, one can acquire mutual hatred. A common enemy always unites.

Buddies are the kind of people who always remember where you messed up, and even make fun of it.

You can communicate with many, but a true friend is one.

To be friends means together, despite the sober state, to laugh uncontrollably to tears, for a reason and without it.

To cry, there is a pillow, by March 8th there are flowers, but for the soul I want a girlfriend, as cool as you!

If misfortune befell both friends at once, they, like two flowers nailed by the wind, rallying together, will find the strength to withstand any bad weather.

Read the continuation of beautiful quotes on the pages:

When we lose a true friend, Nothing can heal the mental illness. — Pierre Corneille

Test a friend, but love a tried one. - Unknown author

Whoever wants to have friends must be friendly himself; and there is a friend who is more attached than a brother. - Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Friendship and community are born in people when there is a common enemy. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do not shun a friend because of a little joke and do not be offended, for this is a sign of stupidity. – As-Samarkandi

To have many friends is to have none. - Erasmus of Rotterdam

Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality. - Pythagoras of Samos

The fraternal closeness of like-minded people is stronger than any walls. - Antisthenes of Athens

The friendship of vicious people is unreliable; it lasts only as long as it serves mutual benefit. — Oliver Goldsmith

Remember, friend: it is more difficult to find a Friend than a girlfriend. — Lope de Vega

My friendship is too circumspect if my friend's danger does not make me forget my own danger. — Denis Diderot

In happiness it is easy to find a friend, in misfortune it is extremely difficult. – Democritus

Friendship warms the soul, a dress warms the body, and the sun and the stove warm the air. – Kozma Prutkov

A friend is known by love, disposition, speeches, deeds. - Unknown author

Fulfilling the duties of friendship is somewhat more difficult than admiring it. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is wise to pour the oil of delicate politeness on the wheel of friendship. — Gabrielle Sidonie Colette

There is nothing more precious than friends; lose no opportunity, therefore, to acquire them whenever you can. — Francesco Guicciardini

It is not safe to praise the object of your love to a friend - as soon as he believes your praises, he will follow in your footsteps. – Ovid

We love friends for their shortcomings. — William Hazlitt

I don't know anything equal to the true friendship of an intelligent person - what a rare gem it is. — Tobias George Smollett

In the hustle and bustle of this world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life... - Karl Marx

Friendship ends where distrust begins. - Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Fellowship and friendship are signs of a real reconciliation with one's gender role and a real balance between the sexes. — Alfred Adler

Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Friendship is based on the similarity of characters and interests in a common common cause, and not on the pleasure that you get from the personality of another. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Without a comrade, no happiness pleases. - Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

A friend is a mirror for a friend, there is no mirror brighter! - Auhad al-Din Anwari

It's not about who you were born from, but who you hang out with. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It is better for a man to be without a brother than without friends. – Unsur al-Maali

The highest honor that my friends can give me is to follow my teachings in their lives, or to fight against it to the end if they do not believe in it. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

A true friend is the greatest of blessings, and at the same time that blessing, the acquisition of which is least thought of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Human friendship in most cases sprouts with many prickly ifs and buts and eventually turns into ordinary friendly relations, which are kept only thanks to omissions. – Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

What, in fact, is wrong in the fact that my friend loves himself more than me? — Francis Bacon

The deepest friendship breeds the most bitter enmity. — Michel de Montaigne

A desecration of friendship - This is a discord with wisdom. – Shota Rustaveli

Many are treats of friends, not friendship. – Menander

Friendship is a calm and quiet affection, guided and strengthened by habit, which arises from long association and mutual commitment. — David Hume

Consider the person who removes stones and thorns from your path as a true friend. – Saadi

Not to notice the cooling of people means little appreciation of their friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Be sincere with your friends, moderate in your needs and disinterested in your actions. - Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

True friendship matures slowly and blossoms only where people have really proved it to each other. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

You can't get a true friend with money. - Unknown author

Don't be cheeky with your friends, otherwise your friends will be nothing but nonentities. – Hong Zicheng

Friendship is the most necessary thing for life, since no one wants to live without friends, even if he had all the other benefits. – Aristotle

True is the ancient proverb that equality creates friendship. – Plato

Do not try to embellish yourself for a friend: for the arrow and striving towards the Superman must be for him. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship is based on the benefits that friends expect from each other. Deprive them of these benefits - and friendship will cease to exist. – Paul Henri Holbach

Share your thoughts with a friend. - Unknown author

Attract friends to you by good deeds. This is the meaning of true friendship. – Abu-l-Faraj

Never enter into friendship with a person whom you cannot respect. - Charles Darwin

Friendship penetrates the lives of all people, but in order to maintain it, sometimes it is necessary to endure grievances. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

True friendship is precisely chosen kinship. – Ernest Wilfried Aeguwe

The inferiority of our friends gives us no little pleasure. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

What is friendship? The word, the illusion that enchants us, the shadow that follows happiness and disappears in hours of misfortune! — Oliver Goldsmith

There is no greater joy than to see friends, there is no bitterer grief than separation from friends. – Rudaki

Important friends - for important things ... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money. – Baltasar Gracian y Morales

Friendship can be strong only with the maturity of the mind and age. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Friendship doubles the joys and cuts the sorrows in half. — Francis Bacon

Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

A true gentleman is never a friend of the heart. — Edmund Burke

Having learned a secret from a friend, do not betray it by becoming an enemy: you will not strike an enemy, but friendship. – Democritus

The rich man has companions and hangers-on, the powerful man has courtiers, the man of action has comrades, and they are also his friends. — André Maurois

A true friend should be our second self; he will never demand from a friend anything but moral beauty; Friendship is given to us by nature, as an assistant in virtues, and not as a companion in vices. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Being deceived by friends, we may be indifferent to the manifestations of their friendship, but we must sympathize with them in their misfortunes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A comrade is a high wall, an indestructible stronghold, a fortress reliably supplied with water. – Sulkhan Orbeliani

A friend who is useless to his friend becomes a stranger to him. – Paul Henri Holbach

The name friend sounds everyday, but friendly fidelity is rare. – Phaedrus

In friendship there are no calculations and considerations, except for itself. — Michel de Montaigne

You can't have too many friends. - Alexandre Dumas (father)

Unity creates friendship. – Democritus

There can be no long-term friendship, subordination, comradeship where one does not adapt to the other. — Francesco Guicciardini

Nothing can inspire people and help them like friendship. – Ba Jing

There is no greater love than if a man lays down his life for his friends. New Testament. Gospel of John

A friend is the greatest wealth in life. - Unknown author

No worldly blessings will be pleasant to us if we use them alone, not sharing them with friends. - Erasmus of Rotterdam

True friendship is true and courageous. — Johann Friedrich Schiller

If a friend reproaches you for any shortcoming, always think that he has not yet told you everything. — Thomas Fuller

They say that friends are known in misfortune, but in my opinion, they are also known in happiness. - Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov

He who does not seek friends for himself is his own enemy. – Shota Rustaveli

Everyone wants to have a friend, but no one wants to be a friend. – Alphonse Jean Carr

As long as you are happy, you have many friends; when times are dark, you are left alone. – Ovid

Without friendship, no communication between people has value. – Socrates

Friendship is not fastened with the mind - it is easily terminated by stupidity. - William Shakespeare

Choose a friend slowly, even less hurry to change him. - Benjamin Franklin

True friendship does not know envy, and true love does not know coquetry. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sincerity of relations, truth in communication - that's friendship. - Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

The greatest feat of friendship is not to show a friend our shortcomings, but to open his eyes to his own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the world, we have three kinds of friends: some love us, others hate us, others simply do not remember. – Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

There is little friendship in the world - and least of all among equals. — Francis Bacon

Such a friendship, which does not withstand the touch of naked truth, is not worth regretting. That's where she belongs. - Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev

Diligently avoid all friendship with fools and rogues, if the word friendship is generally applicable in relations with such people. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The most beautiful gift given to people after wisdom is friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is better to be in darkness than without a friend. - John Chrysostom

Friendship is love without wings. – George Noel Gordon Byron

A friend should bear the shortcomings of a friend. - William Shakespeare

A friend cannot be offended even by a joke. - Unknown author

Have you become clean air, bread and medicine for your friend? Another is unable to free himself from his own chains, but saves his friend. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A wise friend will not abandon a friend, despite all the hardships. – Shota Rustaveli

Better hitting friends than kissing enemies. - John Chrysostom

The happiness that has never deceived me is your friendship. Of all my passions, the only one that has remained unchanged is my friendship for you, for my friendship is a passion. - Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev

Friendship between a man and a woman is very weak at nightfall. – Otto von Schönhausen Bismarck

A friend is, as it were, a second self. - Cicero Mark Tullius

A bad friend is like a shadow: on a sunny day, run - you won’t run away; on a cloudy day, look - you won’t find it. – Abai Kunanbaev

Do not consider friends of the cup as friends, for they are friends of your cup, and not your friends. – Unsur al-Maali

True friendship is one of those things that, like giant sea serpents, is unknown whether they are fictional or exist somewhere. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The friendship of one reasonable person is more precious than the friendship of all unreasonable ones. – Democritus

Friends do not wish us unhappiness, but they find that we are already happy. – Aui Legendre

There are no debtors or benefactors in friendship. — Romain Rouyan

Wrong friends are swallows, which you meet only in summer; it is a sundial, the benefit of which is only as long as the sun shines. – Theodor Gottlieb Hippel

When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, of which the larger one absorbs the smaller one. - Madeleine de Scudery

Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses. - William Shakespeare

Those who love to blame others are incapable of friendship. – Democritus

If my friends are crooked, I look at them in profile. — Joseph Joubert

The enjoyment of communication is the main sign of friendship. – Aristotle

A true friend is one whom I would trust in everything that concerns me more than myself. — Michel de Montaigne

Sincere friendship is based on the proximity of minds and secret laws, and not on visible signs. – As-Samarkandi

It's hard without a friend when he's lost. But it is also difficult with a friend when he is not faithful. – Aibek

There is nothing more dangerous than an ignorant friend. – Jean de La Fontaine

Women, although they attach great importance to friendship, forget about it; men are distrustful of her, and lovers are jealous. – Paul Charles Joseph Bourget

The only way to find a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But if you have a suffering friend, become a place of rest for his suffering, but at the same time a hard bed, a camp bed: this is how you can best help him. - Friedrich Nietzsche

In friendship, as in love, what brings happiness more often is what we do not know than what we know. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only sincere and enduring friendship is that which exists between a man and a woman, because it is the only affection free from all rivalry. — Auguste Comte

For high friendship, one condition is necessary - the ability to do without it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many friends; friendship is rare. – Phaedrus

Why am I getting a friend? To have someone to die for. - Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Friendship is content with the possible, without demanding what is due. – Aristotle

Whoever is a good friend, he also has good friends. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Friends are there to help each other. — Romain Rolland

All the honors of this world are not worth one good friend. – Voltaire

In general, friendship can be judged only in relation to people of mature age and a mature soul. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Only the hand of a friend can tear the thorns out of the heart. – Claude Adrian Helvetius

Better friend or brother? - A brother, when he is a friend, is better. – Unsur al-Maali

There is no greater joy in this world than the sight of relatives and friends. There is no more painful torment on earth than to be with glorious friends in separation. – Rudaki

A friend is someone who, whenever you need him, knows about it. — Jules Renard

Leave not an old friend, for a new one cannot be compared with him; A new friend is like new wine: when it becomes old, you will drink it with pleasure. - Old Testament. Sirach

Do not frequently enter your friend's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you. - Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

You can never do too much for a devoted friend. – Henrik Ibsen

True friends are those who have one soul in two bodies. — Michel de Montaigne

The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong. – Voltaire

He who, for his own benefit, would let down a friend, has no right to friendship. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

There is nothing better and more pleasant in the world than friendship; excluding friendship from life is like depriving the world of sunshine. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Friendship is not such a miserable light to go out in separation. — Johann Friedrich Schiller

Perhaps, in order to fully appreciate friendship, one must first experience love. – Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

Iron sharpens iron, and a man refines his friend's gaze. - Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Of all that wisdom brings to itself for the happiness of a lifetime, the most important is the possession of friendship. – Epicurus

Friendship is a delicate flower. One careless touch - and the flower withered. – Sun Li

It is more difficult to fulfill the obligations of friendship than to be delighted with them. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

One of the first duties of friendship is to forestall the requests of friends. – Isocrates

I do not need a friend who, agreeing with me in everything, changes his views with me, nodding his head, because the shadow does the same better. – Plutarch

Everyone in the world has enemies, But save us from friends, O God! – Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Wash your hands, brother, from that friend who associates with your enemies. – Unsur al-Maali

In relation to your friends, you need to be as less burdensome as possible. The most delicate thing is not to demand any favors from your friends. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A foolish friend out of friendship will do what a hundred reasonable enemies will not do out of enmity. – Unsur al-Maali

Friends are thieves of time. — Francis Bacon

The question arises whether it is ever possible to prefer new friends to old ones. - Unknown author

A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence, I can think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend should be like blood flowing immediately to a wound, without waiting to be attracted. — Antonio Perez

A friend must bear some of the friend's grief. - Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hiding the truth from friends, to whom will you open up? – Kozma Prutkov

Stretching out your hand to friends, do not clench your fingers into a fist. - Diogenes of Sinop

For friendship, any burden is easy. The universe is eternal, meetings with friends are brief. - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

A man is judged by his friends. – Baltasar Gracian y Morales

He who boasts that he has made many friends has never had a single friend. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Whoever seeks friends is worthy of finding them; whoever has no friends never looked for them. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother. - Benjamin Franklin

Whoever associates with the wise will be wise, but whoever associates with fools will become corrupt. - Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

But you distinguish between the shell and the core. Introducing yourself as a friend is not so smart. — Hisrav Dehlavi

Friendship can unite only worthy people. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

I enter into friendship with very few, but I cherish it. - Karl Marx

Close friendship happens among people who are similar to each other. – Plato

Do not judge a person only by his friends. Remember that Judas' friends were impeccable. - Ernest Hemingway

It's not so hard to die for a friend as it is to find a friend worth dying for. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Life leaves best friends around. Illness - sent by God.
I don't choose my friends. This is stupid and useless. I am much more interested in choosing vegetables in the market. Friends are gifts of fate.

A good thing is the hand of a friend. It does not oblige the one who holds it out to anything, and it is very comforting to the one who shakes it ... (A. Gavalda)

If you make new friends, don't forget the old ones. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)

Find friends, scatter enemies! (Ray Bradbury)

The best quotes about friends with meaning

We need to value friendship, and not just be able to have fun together.
I do not need a friend who, agreeing with me in everything, changes his views with me, nodding his head, because the shadow does the same better. (Plutarch)
This is what it means to be best friends. That's what they are for. To help you not fall into the abyss. (Lauren Oliver)
Short quotes about friends with meaning Nothing strengthens a friendship like the belief that this friend is better than another. (Honore de Balzac)
Only those people who know how to forgive each other for minor shortcomings can be bound by true friendship. (Jean de La Bruyère)

Enemies always tell the truth, friends never. (Cicero)

Only the hand of a friend can tear the thorns out of the heart. (Claude Helvetius)

Friendship does not mean a long acquaintance and communication with some person. This means letting him into your life and soul forever.

In my life I have become convinced that talking with friends most of all and most inconspicuously takes away time; friends are great time thieves. petrarch

Friendship is the most necessary thing for life, since no one wants to live without friends, even if he had all the other benefits. (Aristotle)

Get to know people through personal communication to have real friends.

One of the biggest problems in our lives is figuring out who your friend is. (Mark Levy)

The wise man was asked: How many kinds of friendship are there? Four, he replied. Friends are like food - every day you need them. There are friends, like medicine, you look for them when you feel bad. There are friends, like a disease, they themselves are looking for you. But there are such friends as air - they are not visible, but they are always with you ...

Friendship is not always tested by misfortune. Sometimes it's also happiness.

We are not particularly pleased with our friends if, appreciating our good qualities, they allow themselves to notice our shortcomings as well. (Vauvenargue)

A friend is the person who comes when everyone else is gone...

Our friends are part of our happiness.

Passing the test of difficult life situations, only the most faithful friends remain in our lives. They accept us when we are cool, witty, lucky. They love us hysterical, snotty, weak.

Relationships do not create friends, but common interests. (Democritus)

In the building of human happiness, friendship builds walls, and love forms a dome.

A friend is someone who gives you complete freedom to be yourself. (Jim Morrison)

Quotes about friends with the meaning of great people- Friends are known in trouble, but even more so in joy and luck. It is the feeling of envy that most often separates once close people.

Friendly jealousy is perhaps worse than any other.

Cheer up and remember - when it's hard, take a book and read. Books are friends that never die. (Confucius)

Only enemies tell each other the truth. Friends and lovers, entangled in the web of mutual debt, lie endlessly. (Stephen King)