“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
Source: A Life At Work: The Joy Of Discovering What You Were Born To Do
“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”
“It is a characteristic of the great that they demand far less of other people than of themselves.”
Merkmal großer Menschen ist, daß sie an andere weit geringere Anforderungen stellen als an sich selbst.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 35.
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 139
“The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.”
Friendship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”
Vol. II; LXXXIII
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