A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
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.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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.
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.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.