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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.