Aphorisms on friendship

Here are some witty aphorisms on friendship taken from The Faber Book of Aphorisms, edited by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger (Faber & Faber, 1964)

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. (Santayana)

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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings (Nietzsche)
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If anyone is to remain pleased with you, he should be pleased with himself whenever he thinks of you. (Bradley)

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Most men friendships are too inarticulate. (Wiliam James)

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We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know. (Hofmannsthal)

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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. (Nietzsche)

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Somebody said: "There are two persons whom I have not thought deeply about. That is the proof of my love for them." (Nietzsche)

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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them. (Molière)

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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous fer removal. (Dr. Johnson)
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Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. (L.P. Smith)

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No man regards himself as in all ways inferior to the man he most admires. (La Rochefoucauld)

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We are easily consoled for the misfortunes of our friends if they give us the chance to prove our devotion. (La Rochefoucauld)

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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. (Chesterfield)

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As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices. (Conrad)

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If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole. (Dr. Fuller)

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Our friends show us what we can do, our enemies teach us what we must do. (Goethe)

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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. (Mignon Mclaughlin)