Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.