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.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.