An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.