A successful marriage puts an end to feminine friendships; but if marriage is a failure, the young woman must have others to confide in.
Andre Maurois
The friendship of two young people, says Goethe somewhere, is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.
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Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
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What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
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Well fitted for friendship is he whom men have not disgusted with mankind, and who, believing and knowing that there are a few noble men, a few great minds, a few delightful souls scattered through the crowd, never tires of searching for them, and loves them even before he has found them.
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Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualities that we most admire.
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Does absolute reliance carry with it a complete exchange of confidences? I believe that true friendship cannot exist otherwise.
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There is not one who speaks of us in our presence as he does in our absence, wrote Pascal. All affection is based on this mutual deception, and few friendships would survive if we knew what our friends were saying of us behind our backs.
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