To live with one's enemies as if they might one day be our friends, and
to live with our friends as though they might one day become our
enemies, is neither natural to hatred nor consistent with friendship.
Such a maxim is not moral, but politic.

--_La Bruyere_.

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To take the companionship of life from life, what else is it than to
take away the means of absent friends conversing together?

--_Cicero_.

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The love of friendship is the most perfect form of loving.

--_Cardinal Manning_.

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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, Let there be truth
between us two forevermore. It is sublime to feel and say of another, I
need never meet, or speak, or write to him; we need not reinforce
ourselves or send tokens of remembrance, I rely on him as on myself; if
he did thus or thus I know it was right.

--_Emerson_.