"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld Topic(s): Friendship Tags: however More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld "The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity." "Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example." "Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth." More In Friendship "For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda."― Lauryn Hill "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."― Barack Obama "My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."― Georg Brandes