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

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

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

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.