Quotes About Friendship

It is possible to differ politically, socially, religiously, or in many other ways, yet to be friends.

O que de pior acontece a qualquer pessoa é tornar-se inimigo da palavra

True friendship can exist only between equals.

what if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal;...would that be a life to disregard?

The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but true friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal. –Plato-

The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil.

The word friend is common, the fact is rare.

Friends have all things in common.

It is no good for rulers if the people they rule cherish ambitions for themselves or form strong bonds of friendship with one another.

for the interests of rulers require that their subjects should be poor in spirit, and that there should be no strong bond of friendship or society among them, which love, above all other motives, is likely to inspire, as our Athenian tyrants learned by experience; for... [love] had a strength which undid their power...

I would rather have a good friend than the best cock or quail in the world: I would even go further, and say the best horse or dog.

He meant friends owe [10] something good to their friends, never something bad.

Be of good cheer, then, my dear Crito, and say that you are burying my body only

Now tell me best of friends lmaoooo

When two friends, like you and me, are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.

Friends possess everything in common.

Many animals, I replied, furnish examples of them; our friend the dog is a very good one: you know that well-bred dogs are perfectly gentle to their familiars and acquaintances, and the reverse to strangers. Yes, I know. Then there is nothing impossible or out of the order of nature in our finding a guardian who has a similar combination of qualities? Certainly

They are always either the masters or servants and never the friends of anybody; the tyrant never tastes of true freedom or friendship.

We should rather say that he is a friend who is, as well as seems, good; and that he who seems only, and is not good, only seems to be and is not a friend; and of an enemy the same may be said.

La amistad del amante no brota del buen sentido, sino como las ganas de comer, del ansia de saciarse.

And this is because injustice creates divisions and hatreds and fighting, and justice imparts harmony and friendship; is not that true, Thrasymachus? I agree, he said, because I do not wish to quarrel with you.

Podrás, pues, censurar un tenor de vida que nadie sería capaz de practicar sino siendo por naturaleza me­morioso, expedito en el estudio, elevado de mente, bien dispuesto, amigo y allegado de la verdad, de la justicia, del valor y de la templanza?

So where power is in the hands of a savage and uneducated tyrant, anyone who is greatly his superior will doubtless be an object of fear to the ruler, and never able to be on terms of genuine friendship with him.

Querido Critão! Quão precioso o teu ardor, se alguma retidão o acompanhasse!