“In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.”
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
“Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.”
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Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
Context: Anger has an enemy: Peace. Peace has no enemy. Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.
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“A warrior has only one true friend: himself.”
David Gemmell book Quest for Lost Heroes
So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in the strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 3
“France has no friends, only interests.”
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
Clementine Churchill: "General, you must not hate your friends more than you hate your enemies"
De Gaulle (in English): "France has no friends, only interests." (De Gaulle did not speak specifically of France, but of all nation-states, including Britain. This remark was in line with his saying "Men can have friends, statesmen cannot",*Les hommes peuvent avoir des amis, pas les hommes d'Etat., in Interview, December 9, 1967).
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Ali (601–661) cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
As quoted in "Considerations By the Way" in Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Variant translation: Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough
“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger: The White House Years, quoted from Dinesh D'Souza: What's so great about America http://books.google.com/books?id=tFcDN5D1SLQC&pg=PA164&dq=kissinger+america+friends+only+interests&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=50&as_brr=0&ei=_UCDSs7YA6fuygTH3LTiCg&hl=sv#v=onepage&q=kissinger%20america%20friends%20only%20interests&f=false. This echoes Lord Palmerston's words: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual". <br class="br">1980s
“Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: UnWholly
“One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“No one deserves to live who has not at least one good-man-and-true for a friend.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
