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People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.

— Thiruvalluvar

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

— Aristotle

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

— Saadi

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

— Thomas Jefferson

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

— Edward Young

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

— E. W. Howe

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

— Voltaire

✗Opposing Perspectives

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

— Charles Eastman

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

— Oliver Goldsmith