“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it
“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions
“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly
“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends
“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
“I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit
“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius
“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.