“friendship and love blind every man to their interests.”

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

Chanakya (-375–-283 BC) Ancient Indian statesman and philosopher

“Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside…”

Martin Amis book London Fields

“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“Nobody loves the light like the blind man.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

“Son, you're probably too young to look for wisdom in anyone's words but your own, but I'll tell you this: love is the enemy… Yes. The poets continually and sometimes willfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a cannibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile; it is always hungry.
When asked what love eats:
Friendship. It eats friendship.”

Stephen King book Christine

“Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.”

John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright

“Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

“A blind man can see how much I love you”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer