If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
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.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Friends accept you the way you are.