“A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.”
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“Between a brother and a friend, the choice is clear.”
Mobutu announcing the break in diplomatic relations between Zaire and Israel at the United Nations Security Council, November 4, 1973. Young and Turner, p. 138
“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.”
VIII. 585–586 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey
“92. A Father is a Treasure, a Brother a Comfort; but a Friend is both.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : A Father's a Treasure; a Brother's a Comfort; a Friend is both.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The time shall come
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.”
Hope on, hope ever, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Quotes on Philanthropy, http://www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=99c18960a5a11310VgnVCM1000004d64a8c0RCRD&appInstanceName=default, sheikhmohammed.ae.