Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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.

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

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

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

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.