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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 15 (March 17, 1711)
- Happiness
Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Campaign (1704), Line 101
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus525–456 BCAgamemnon, lines 832–833
- Envy
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Aesop620–564 BCAesop’s Fables (6th century BC), The Gamecocks and the Partridge – The Dove and the CrowIn context
- Character
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
Aesop620–564 BCAesop’s Fables (6th century BC), The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion – The Cat and the CockIn context
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou1928–2014Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) p. 12.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle384–322 BCThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book IX, 1168b.1
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book VIII, 1155a.5
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle384–322 BCEudemian Ethics, Book VII, 1238a.20
While both are dear, Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book I chapter 6, 1096a.16
- Truth & Lies
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person’s good, wishes it for that person’s own sake.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book IX, 1168b.1
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book VIII, 1155a.26
- Justice
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden1907–1973The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962), “Hic et Ille”
- Love