Francis Bacon Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. A friend is, as it were, a second self. Byron To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. Shakespeare That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. Quarles He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also.
Richter Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. The Hitopadesa Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.