"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce." ― Voltaire Topic(s): Friendship Tags: friendship, marriage More From Voltaire "What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking." "It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape." "Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." More In Friendship "Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."― Rabindranath Tagore "The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."― Charles de Lint "Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding."― Juan Antonio Samaranch