“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”

— Pythagoras

As quoted in Gems of Thought: Being a Collection of More Than a Thousand Choice Selections, Or Aphorisms, from Nearly Four Hundred and Fifty Different Authors, and on One Hundred and Forty Different Subjects (1888). p. 97 by Charles Northend

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ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585–-495 BC

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