“Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.”
Source: James O'Donnell Bennett (1908) When Good Fellows Get Together, p. 147
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French writer 1814–1896Related quotes
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
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Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Si on juge de l'amour par la plupart de ses effets, il ressemble plus à la haine qu'à l'amitié.
Maxim 72.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Samuel Butler book The Way of All Flesh
Life, xvi
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part I - Lord, What is Man?
Source: The Way of All Flesh
Sidney Hook (1902–1989) American philosopher
Out of Step (1985)
“Sell not the friendship of the Lord for the friendship of the world and its possessions.”
Sufyan al-Thawri (716–778) Muslim Scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 29
Thomas Piketty book Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), p. 52.
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
X & XI
Miscellaneous Poems (1773), A Paraphrase on the Prayer used in The Church Liturgy for All Sorts and Conditions Of Men
Context: The Church is indeed, in its real Intent,
An Assembly where Nothing but
Friendship is meant;
And the utter Extinction of Foeship and Wrath
By the Working of Love in the Strength of its Faith.
This gives it its holy and catholic Name,
And truly confirms its apostolic Claim;
Showing what the One Saviour's One Mission had been:
"Go and teach all the World," — ev'ry Creature therein. In the Praise ever due to the Gospel of Grace
Its Universality holds the first Place.
When an Angel proclaim'd Its glad Tidings the Morn
That the Son of the Virgin, the Saviour, was born,
"Which shall be to all People," was said to complete
The angelical Message, so good and so great,
Full of " Glory to God," in the Regions Above,
And of "Goodness to Men," is so Boundless a Love.
“A business with an income at its heels
Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 615.