Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Children make your life important.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.