Friendship Quotes
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer” is credited to Sun Tzu, and sometimes to Machiavelli or Petrarch. Wikiquote traces the wording most directly to a line spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II. It is flagged here as misattributed.
“Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies” is flagged too. It is credited to Voltaire, and to the Maréchal de Villars. One French source puts the words in the mouth of Gourville, a man writing as an exile.
For the sourced quotes, try Sydney Smith: “Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence” (from his memoir, 1855). Or Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), where old friends are always best, “’less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.”
"The moment created a friendship, an emotional moment, and a significant message to the world.”
Alternative translation: In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
There is no such thing as eternal friendship or eternal hostility–-only eternal interests.
Be honey to those who seek your friendship, but deadly poison to those who dare attack you.
The value of friendship is immeasurable, as it enriches our lives in ways we never thought possible.
Friendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm