Roger de Rabutin Quotes

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.

Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.