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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

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

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

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.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.