I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
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.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.