Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Giotto di Bondone

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Plautus

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

FRIENDSHIP, SWEETENER OF HUMAN LIFE IS FRIENDSHIP

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

Walking with a friend

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.