Aristotle - Friends Quotes

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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Men … are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different cause — the wickedness of human nature.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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When he was asked 'What is a friend?' he said 'One soul inhabiting two bodies.'

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

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The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them...

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was, A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

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While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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