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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

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 blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

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.

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

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

A man should never neglect his family for business.