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.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
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.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
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.
Children make your life important.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
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.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
