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God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

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

Chide me when I do anything that is not well, but then make haste to tell me that you have forgiven me, and that you are what I shall ever be, a faithful friend.

Methinks, if I loved him more, I should keep him--I should keep myself rather--at a more respectful distance.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.

Running in this Road I found many like myself; and we associated in that which is the reverse of true Friendship.

Moreover men commonly deceive themselves in respect of the love which they imagine others bear them, nor can ever be sure of it until they have put it to the proof.

The prince, therefore, who would guard himself against plots, ought more to fear those men to whom he has been too indulgent, than those to whom he has done great wrongs.

a prince should entrust his friends with so much authority only as leaves a certain interval between his position and theirs

Whereas among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

a friend should be like money tried before being required, not found faulty in our need

Might not someone jeer at us in the same way, as being afraid, when we have not yet one firm friendship, that we shall without knowing it fall upon an abundance of friends?

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.

Many friendships are formed by a community of sensual pleasures: all these will be cut off.

To disappoint a friend is unpleasing; and he that forms expectations like yours, must be disappointed.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings, because they are his own.

Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy, and we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards.