Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Children make your life important.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.