There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.