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

Children make your life important.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

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