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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
"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."