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

Mencius

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Mencius
Chinese - Philosopher
372 BC - 289 BC

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Mencius

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

Aelred of Rievaulx

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Thomas F. Wilson

Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.

Marlin K. Jensen

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Samuel Richardson

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Mark Vernon

Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

Henry David Thoreau

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.

Anna Garlin Spencer

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

Henry David Thoreau

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

When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.

Jennifer Chiaverini

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

Simon Sinek

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