ON FRIENDSHIP

Identity of feelings makes friendship; it is needless for friends to meet often or be long together:

The face may wear a smile at the light of one, but he only is a friend whose sight brings about an internal joy, which fills the whole soul.

The triple service of friendship is to take the friend out of the wrong path, to lead him into the right path, and to share in his misfortune.

There is nothing so harmful as friendship contracted without discrimination, because the quality of friendship is that friendship once made cannot be given up.

Let friendship be contracted only after knowing the man's good points his birth, his defects and his connections (relatives and friends).

It is worth while making sacrifices to acquire the friendship of one who is well born and is sensitive to public opinion about him.

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