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

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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

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

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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