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 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 man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
Nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.
Friends are proved by adversity.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Friends, though absent, are still present.
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories