In this respect friendship is superior to relationship, because from relationship benevolence can be withdrawn, and from friendship it cannot; for with the withdrawal of benevolence the very name of friendship is done away, while that of relationship remains.
—Cicero.
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I want a warm and faithful friend,
To cheer the adverse hour;
Who ne'er to flatter will descend,
Nor bend the knee to power.
A friend to chide me when I'm wrong,
My inmost soul to see;
And that my friendship prove as strong
To him as his to me.
—Adams.
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Friendship's true laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
—Pope.
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Human spirits are only to be drawn together and held together by the living bond of having found something in which they really do agree.