“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”
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Homér 217
Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the OdysseyRelated quotes
“A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.”
Amicum qui diu quaeritur, vix invenitur, difficile servatur.
Letter 3
Letters
“It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.”
Source: Hunted
“True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.”
Cynthia's Revels (1600), Act III, scene ii
“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
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”