Quotes About Friendship

I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it, if there were not a friend? The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.

Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.

Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our friend

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity.

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them. But who knows such love? who has experienced it? Its true name is friendship

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency. Those whom I deemed Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost our old affinity: One has to change to stay akin to me.

I have thought of you much, and have shared with you in thought much that has been elevating, stirring, and gay, so much so that it has been like living with my dear friends. If only you know how novel and strange that seems to an old hermit like me? How often it has made me laugh at myself!

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

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

In many people, incidentally, the gift of having good friends is much greater than the gift of being a good friend.

Îns? în ceea ce îi priveÅŸte pe "prietenii cei buni", mereu prea comozi ÅŸi care, tocmai ca prieteni, îÅŸi închipuie c? au dreptul la comoditate, faci bine dac? le avansezi un loc de joac?, o aren? a nepriceperii lor: vei avea astfel pricin? de râs; - sau s?-i înl?turi cu totul pe aceÅŸti prieteni buni, - ÅŸi iar s? râzi!

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go.

For ten years you have climbed here to my cave: you would have become weary of shining and of the journey, had it not been for me, my eagle, and my serpent.

Allzulange war im Weibe ein Sclave und ein Tyrann versteckt. Deshalb ist das Weib noch nicht der Freundschaft fähig: es kennt nur die Liebe.

Every company is bad company except that of one's equals.

Mult prea mult timp într-o femeie erau ascunÅŸi un sclav ÅŸi un tiran. Iat? de ce femeia nu-i în stare s? fie prieten?: ea nu cunoaÅŸte decât dragostea. In dragostea femeii se ascunde nedreptate ÅŸi orbire-mpotriva a tot ce nu iubeÅŸte ea. Åži chiar ÅŸi-n dragostea cea ÅŸtiutoare a femeii se afl?-ntotdeauna, al?turi de lumin?, surpriz?, fulger ÅŸi-ntuneric.

favourites.-There is, of course, here and there on this terrestrial sphere a kind of sequel to love, in which that envious longing of two persons for one another has yielded to a new desire and covetousness, to a common, higher thirst for a superior ideal standing above them : but who knows this love? Who has experienced it? Its right name is friendship.

That poem was not by me. It is among the things which quite overpower me; I have never been able to read it without tears coming to my eyes; it sounds like a voice for which I have been waiting and waiting since childhood. The poem is by my friend Lou... She is as shrewd as an eagle and brave as a lion, and yet still a very girlish child, who perhaps will not live long.

One in three all friends are: Brothers in distress, equals facing rivals, free men - facing death!

The Good Man Better an enmity from one block than friendship held together by glue.