Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Friendship is love without his wings!
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
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.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
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.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
