The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words 756
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. 513
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you’re suddenly eager to know him or her even better. 895
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. 2.4K
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. 610
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. 530
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things. 599
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. 513
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. 508
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. 625
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. 526
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. 635