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I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. – Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Man have to have friends even in hell. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds). – Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. – Ethel Mumford	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered. – John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - died 1 year later	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. – Sun-tzu	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Even the best of friends need time apart. – Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09-09-05	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. – Eleanor Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds. – Chinese proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . . – Aristophanes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. – Diogenes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. – Robert Burton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others. – Walter Scott	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is – Phillips Brooks	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. – Helen Keller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. – John Henry Newman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. – Ricther	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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