Albert Camus
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Aldo Leopold
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Aesop
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Anaïs Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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

Baltasar Gracián

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

Benjamin Franklin

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is this: let your interest be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons who interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bob Marley

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend & Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy

Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Chanakya

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Charles Darwin

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Having a lover/friend who regards you as a living growing criatura [creature], being, just as much as the tree from the ground, or a ficus in the house, or a rose garden out in the side yard... having a lover and friends who look at you as a true living breathing entity, one that is human but made of very fine and moist and magical things as well... a lover and friends who support the ciatura in you... these are the people you are looking for. They will be the friends of your soul for life. Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

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David Levithan

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Edwin A. Robinson

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Edwin Louis Cole

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Erol Ozan

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

Ethel Barrymore

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Gary Busey

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

Gregory David Roberts

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.

Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

James F. Byrnes

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Jasmine Guy

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

Lori Gottlieb

Relationships in life don't really end, even if you never see the person again. Every person you've been close to lives on somewhere inside you. Your past lovers, your parents, your friends, people both alive and dead (symbolically or literally)--all of them evoke memories, conscious or not.

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Michelle Obama

Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses ... swapped back and forth and over again.

Rachel Machacek

I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Reese Witherspoon

I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.

Robert Greene

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wiseIf you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the will which says to them:

'Hold on!'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Sophie Kinsella

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

Sophocles

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Stephen Richards

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

Sue Monk Kidd

The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.

Sui Ishida

Fear is like a fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you. It can heat your house.If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. Fear is your friend and your worst enemy.

Tacitus

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Thich Nhat Hanh

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Tim Burton

When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

Tim Fargo

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

W. Clement Stone

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

William Hazlitt

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

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