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There are very few honest friends⁠—the demand is not particularly great.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach1830–1916Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 71.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else⁠—unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and Opinions
- Enemies
- Intelligence
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Essays
A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
A friend is the hope of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Domestic Life
The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — “Let there be truth between us two forevermore”.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
- Truth & Lies
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 7 (Bartlett’s, 9th ed. 1892)
- Money
They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIIn context
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IXIn context
- Life & Death
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Letters to Madame Louise Colet (14 June 1853)
- Art
- Enemies
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster1879–1970What I Believe (1938)
- Patriotism