Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
FRIENDSHIP, SUCCESS ALWAYS NECESSITATES A DEGREE OF RUTHLESSNESS
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
FRIENDSHIP, NEVER LOSE A CHANCE TO MAKE THEM
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
FRIENDSHIP, FRIENDSHIP IMPROVES HAPPINESS
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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