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book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

Friendship

  1. A nobody is everybody’s friend.
  2. Friendship is cherishing virtues of your friend, while ignoring his weaknesses.
  3. Criticism creates fault lines in friendship.
  4. Be a friend to get a friend.
  5. Those friendships prosper in which one is comfortable to be oneself in the follies and foibles of one’s character.
  6. When a friend dies, his friends are shocked and then relieved that they did not die.
  7. You choose your flatterer, as much as he chooses you.
  8. You like a friend because she understands about you tenderly.
  9. You cannot maintain an enduring friendship with a person, if your wife is not the friend of your friend’s wife. Your friend cannot be invited to dinner alone .
  10. Friends are meant to point out weaknesses in your character, before the enemies rudely you in telling ways.
  11. Durable friendships normally start between undurable bachelors.
  12. You would not like to share a friend with a person whose company you do not like.
  13. There is no time like time shared with the friends.
  14. It is a delight to quote the unquotables among the friends.

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In every family, if one is lucky, there appears a figure so marvellously singular, so steeped in wisdom and warmth that he becomes a sort of personal North Star. Rasheed Ahmed Akhund was such a man; measured, principled and enigmatic. A man who, like the best of us, lived not for show but for substance. He belonged to a dwindling class of men who thought deeply, spoke sparingly and forgave quietly.

“A person cannot say that reality is above human comprehension because, being human, he cannot know that there is anything above his comprehension"

- on Philosophy

“lf you attempt to prove existence of God with cold logic, you will land him in contradictions. If you feel him warmly, he is universal love and sense of perfection.”

- on God

Rasheed A. Akhund

Book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

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