Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

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.