To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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

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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Friendship is love without his wings!

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.