Friendship for a fool and love for a great man are like lines drawn on water, which leave neither trace nor mark.  -Asa Kj War 22

Have a great number of friends but not countless.  -The Teachings of Silvanus

A gentleman makes friends through being cultivated, but looks to friends for support in benevolence.

There is not greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends.  -John 15.13

Requite evil with good, and he who is your enemy will become your dearest friend.  -Koran 41.30

The friends who love you best are never afraid to speak the truth, no matter how painful or difficult it might be.

That man is a hero that can make a friend out of love.  -Talmud
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