The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

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

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

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

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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

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

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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