Aeschylus - Friend Quotes

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If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

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Few men have the strength of character to rejoice in a friend's success without a touch of envy.

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

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This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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