Friedrich Nietzsche quotes on friendship

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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