A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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

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.

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

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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

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

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.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.