Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.