TAmong the most important bonds that can be established, friendship can last for many years. But it doesn’t always happen and, despite all the conditions, sometimes the relationship can break down and end. And the situation is often experienced in a more heartfelt and painful way than the end of a love affair. It is no coincidence that many poets, philosophers and personalities have written phrases about disappointments in friendship.
Disappointments in friendship, the most significant phrases
Even the ancient Greeks philosophized about friendship disappointment at the time and, in general, about false friendships. A topic that has been particularly felt throughout the ages because it is difficult to deal with. And, as the wise men say, a friendship ends not just because the other person wasn’t a true friend.
On the contrary, very often the causes and explanations are different and in some cases even deepersuch as having changed, no longer trusting the other person or even simple jealousy.
Phrases and aphorisms of the ancients about friendship
I don’t want a friend who smiles when I smile who cries when I cry, because my shadow in the pool can do it better.
Confucius
Keep away from your enemies, and beware of your friends.
Sirach, book of the Old Testament
It’s quick to decide to be friends, however friendship is a fruit that matures slowly.
Aristotle
Getting rid of a trusted friend is the same, to me, as getting rid of your life.
Sophocles
A friendship that could have ended was never sincere.
Saint Jerome
Friendship is equality.
Pythagoras
Friend is a common word, but a faithful friend is rare.
Phaedrus
Flattery brings friends, truth breeds hatred.
Terence
Whoever looks at a true friend, in reality, is as if he were looking in a mirror.
Guide
Friendship is just a word, but loyalty is an empty word.
Publius Ovidius Naso
What it feels like to end a friendship
Once a friendship ends, it can also happen that you feel a little silly for having invested so much in the relationship or even for not understanding what kind of person the other was.
One must be careful not to form a very good opinion of people he or she knows; otherwise in most cases you will be disappointed with your own disgrace or perhaps damage.
William Shakespeare
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
Blessed are those who expect nothing, because they will never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope
A half friend is a half traitor.
Victor Hugo
Everyone calls themselves friends, but anyone who trusts them is crazy; nothing is more common than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Jean de La Fontaine
It is easier to defend yourself from an enemy than from a friend.
James Cole
The problem is not dying for a friend, but finding a friend worth dying for.
Mark Twain
Men recover much better from romantic disappointments than from economic ones.
George Bernard Shaw
Friendship is certainly the best balm for the wounds of a disappointed love.
Jane Austen
After all, you don’t have friends, you only have accomplices. And when complicity ceases, friendship vanishes.
Pierre Reverdy
To find a friend, you have to turn a blind eye; so as not to lose it, both of us.
Norman Douglas
I prefer a sincere enemy to most of the friends I’ve made.
Ernest Hemingway
Phrases about the friendship of intellectuals and politicians
I consider it a lesser loss to lose all one’s possessions than to lose a faithful friend.
Martin Luther
There can be no deep disappointment where there is no deep love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Never do good if you are not prepared for ingratitude.
Enzo Ferrari
Do you want a friend in this city? Get a dog!
Harry S. Truman
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today I am a successful man because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the courage to disappoint him.
Abraham Lincoln
One of the surest ways to be disappointed by a friend is to lend him money.
Benjamin Franklin
As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Few friendships would survive if each knew what his friends were saying about him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal
It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The worst loneliness is to be devoid of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon
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