"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
― Oliver Goldsmith
Topic(s):
Friendship
More From Oliver Goldsmith
- "Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"
- "Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse."
- "Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
More In Friendship
- "Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater."― Emil Zatopek
- "Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake."― J. Donald Walters
- "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."― Pietro Aretino