If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.