--_Ovid_.
Our best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship;
and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and
interested motives if they can.
--_C. C. Colton_.
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For to have the same predilections and the same aversions, that and that
alone is the surest bond of friendship.
--_Sallust_.
False friends, like insects in a summer's day,
Bask in the sunshine, but avoid the shower;
Uncertain visitants, they flee away
E'en when misfortune's cloud begins to lower.
Into life's bitter cup true friendship drops
Balsamic sweets to overpower the gall;
True friends, like ivy and the wall it props,
Both stand together, or together fall.
--_Anonymous_.
He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman
beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself.
--_Talleyrand_.
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How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the Good and
True: otherwise impossible; except as armed neutrality or hollow
commercial league.
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