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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Four Loves (1960), Ch. IV
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949), “Membership”
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Four Loves (1960), Introduction
- Love
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Joseph Gillespie (13 July 1849)
Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address (1861)
- Emotion
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Drift-wood. QuoteInvestigator (Aug. 19, 2019)
- Enemies
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Arrow and the Song (1845)In context
- Music
Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527The Prince (1532), Chapter IIIIn context
- Enemies
- Power
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaineborn 1934Don’t Fall Off the Mountain (1970)
- Fear
Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
Malcolm X1925–1965Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)
- Enemies
- Work
I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Unpublished autobiographical manuscript (1975)
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Enemies
- War & Peace