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.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

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

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