Real friends stab you in the front.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.