I don’t need a friend
who changes when I change
and who nods when I nod;
my shadow does that
much better.
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
(ca. 46 – 120 AD, Greek historian, biographer and essayist)
Suspicion is
the cancer of friendship.
Francesco Petrarch
(1304 – 1374, Italian scholar and poet,
often called the ‘Father of Humanism’)
often called the ‘Father of Humanism’)
Since there is nothing
so well worth having as friends,
never lose a chance
to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
(1483 – 1540, Italian historian and statesman)
There is
a scarcity of friendship,
but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller
(1608 – 1661, English churchman and historian)
Rare as is true love,
true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
(1621 – 1695, famous French fabulist and poet)
Be slow in choosing a friend,
slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
(1705 – 1790, polymath, politician, scientist,
statesman and diplomat)
statesman and diplomat)
Fate chooses your relations,
you choose your friends.
Jacques Delille
(1738 – 1813, French poet and translator)
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