Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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

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

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Anybody amuses me for once. 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.