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Fate, which has ordained that there shall be no friendship among the evil, has also ordained that there shall ever be friendship among the good.
—Plato.
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False friendship turns to evil desires, upbraidings, slander, deceit, sorrow, confusion and jealousies; but pure friendship is always the same, modest, courteous and loving, knowing no change save an increasingly pure and perfect union.
—De Sales.
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Friendship is love with understanding. —Proverb.
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Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.