No True Friends Quotes

• One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

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  Clifton Fadiman

  Friendship   True Friend   Real  

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• If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

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  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Friendship   True Friend   Selfish  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.55

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• I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

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  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Love   Inspirational   Friendship  

  "Little Foxes". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 3, 1865.

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• There are no true friends in politics.

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  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  True Friend   Politics   No True Friends  

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• I have had no true friends, only lovers.

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  Pablo Picasso

  Love   True Friend   Lovers  

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• There can be no true friends without true enemies

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  Michael Dibdin

  Inspirational   True Friend   Enemy  

  FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from Feb 12, 2012

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• There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

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  Alan Clark

  True Friend   Sharks   Blood  

  1990 Diary entry, 30 Nov.

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• Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.

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  Rumi

  Wisdom   True Friend   Islamic  

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.318, Delphi Classics

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship   Wisdom   Kings  

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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