“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
“Love between man and woman is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse, and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”
“True friendship can exist only between equals.”
“There is no friendship possible between men and women[...]. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.”