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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us. (Sylva Carmen)
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. (Sylva Carmen)
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude. (Sylva Carmen)
There is no friend as loyal as a book (Sylva Carmen)
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Never deceive a friend. (Sylva Carmen)
The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. (Sylva Carmen)
Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. (Sylva Carmen)
However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. (Sylva Carmen)
The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it. (Sylva Carmen)
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. (Sylva Carmen)
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. (Sylva Carmen)
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for. (Sylva Carmen)
Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better. (Sylva Carmen)
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. (Sylva Carmen)
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. (Sylva Carmen)
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. (Sylva Carmen)
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you. (Sylva Carmen)
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. (Sylva Carmen)
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia. (Sylva Carmen)
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. (Sylva Carmen)
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. (Sylva Carmen)
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? (Sylva Carmen)
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. (Sylva Carmen)
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. (Sylva Carmen)
The friendship that can cease has never been real. (Sylva Carmen)
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