Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Every individual we meet is different than we are. Members of the same family differ one from the other. Friend differs from friend, husband from wife, sister from brother, nation from nation. All these differences make 'feeling' love difficult and isolated to specific individuals according to our tastes and their personalities.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
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