It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
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.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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 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.
Friendship and money: oil and water.