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

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The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.

That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.

But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man.’

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

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle's Psychology as translated by E. Wallace (1882)

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Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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