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Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again, such as I can fearlessly say there never was before.

Fire and water themselves, to use a common expression, are not of more universal use than friendship.

For them all is suspicion and anxiety; for them there is no possibility of friendship.

In such cases friendships should be allowed to die out gradually by an intermission of intercourse.

In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.

Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.

The real limit to be observed in friendship is this: the characters of two friends must be stainless.

it is in regard to friendship, as in so many other things, so supple and sensitive that it expands, so to speak, at a friend's good fortune, contracts at his misfortunes

it was the virtue of the man that I loved, and that has not suffered death

Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.