e sort fait les parents, la choix fait les amis.
{ Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends }
{ Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends }
-- Jacques Delille, in Malheur at Piti (1803), Canto I
God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
-- Ethel Watts Mumford
A good friend is my nearest relation.
-- Thomas Fuller
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
-- Euripides
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
-- Eustache Deschamps
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