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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

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

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.