The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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