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

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

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

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

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

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.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

Children make your life important.

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.