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

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.