To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.