Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
