A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
