I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

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

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

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

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.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

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

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.