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“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cf63c11fc7930de8e525ea410e18e9220bacd47f0da08d4284d9419d084258cb
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“He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends…”
Diogenes Laertius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not…”
Hesiod
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt…”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth…”
Oliver Goldsmith
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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