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- Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
- Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
- We are like oil and water, but all my other relationships are like oil and vinegar! Delicious!
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)
- We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
- I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
- Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Unknown, (often attributed to Albert Camus)
- I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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