“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”

“It was just a friendship,”

“the friendship was over.”

No friendship is an accident.

Friendship humanizes.

There is no friendship in trade.

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.