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To have always
Had the wind for a friend is no recommendation.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "Some Old Tires.")
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 320, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "Man Alone With Himself," aphorism 499, "Friend," (1878).
Wordplay between Nietzsche's coinage Mitfreude ("rejoicing in our joy") and Mitleiden ("suffering over our suffering" or, more conventionally, "pitying").)
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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cassius, in Julius Caesar, act 4, sc. 3, l. 86-7.)
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To have always
Had the wind for a friend is no recommendation.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "Some Old Tires.")
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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end
This poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
(Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Greek dramatist. Prometheus, in Prometheus Bound, The Complete Plays of Aeschylus, trans. by Gilbert Murray (1951).)
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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
(Nicholas Breton (c. 1545-1626), British author, poet. repr. In Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton, vol. 2 (1879). The Mother's Blessing (1602-1603).)
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Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Philoctetes, l. 672.)
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A boy's best friend is his mother.
(Joseph Stefano, U.S. screenwriter, and Alfred Hitchcock. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), in Psycho (1960).)
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