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 new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Children make your life important.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
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.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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.
Real friends stab you in the front.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
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.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
