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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

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

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

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

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