There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

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

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.