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The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
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Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
The only constant in life is change.
