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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

— E. W. Howe

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

— Chanakya

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

— Thomas Aquinas

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

— Randolph Bourne

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

— Robin Morgan

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

— Simon Sinek

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

— Ernie Banks

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

— John Wooden

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

— Mariella Frostrup

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

— Hanya Yanagihara

✗Opposing Perspectives

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

— Rowan Williams