A Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

Walter Savage Landor

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Friendship Virtue

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Walter Savage Landor
English - Poet
January 30, 1775 - September 17, 1864

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Mencius

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

Mary Astell

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Mencius

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

Samuel Johnson

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Alexander Pope

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

Samuel Johnson

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

Confucius

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

Joseph Addison

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

William Penn

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

Frank Lloyd Wright

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).