A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Andre Maurois
Does absolute reliance carry with it a complete exchange of confidences? I believe that true friendship cannot exist otherwise.
friendship
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.
friendship absence
Human beings are lazy and it very often happens that one wearies of a new-born emotion for no valid reason unless there is some restraint to stimulate and stabilize it.
emotions
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
absence
admiration
In the misfortunes of our best friends, we always find something not unpleasing.
misfortune
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
novelty
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