Quotes about friendship
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Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack (1756)
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Letters to Madame Louise Colet (14 June 1853)Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Letter to Henry Cromwell (19 October 1709)
Anaïs Nin1903–1977March 1937
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIX: On worldliness and retirement, Line 11.
Colley Cibber1671–1757Richard III (altered) (1700), Act V, scene 3. Similar thought in William Shakespeare, King Richard III.- DGDavid Gemmell1948–2006Legend, Ch. 1
Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book II
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986Conclusion, p. 541
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Metamorphoses (Transformations), Book IV, 428- Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 720; translated by J. Lewis May in The Love Books of Ovid, 1930
There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.
- Alexander Pope1688–1744“Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer” (1721)
