A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Friendship is love without his wings!

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

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

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

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.