Henry Adams Quotes on Friendship

5 quotes

  1. Friends are born, not made.

  2. A friend in power is a friend lost.

  3. Intimates are predestined.

  4. One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

  5. Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

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