Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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.
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.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.