Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
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.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.