The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.