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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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.

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

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.