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.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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 the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
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.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
