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A friend to all is a friend to none. ...
by Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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