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- Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
- Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.