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.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Between friends there is no need of justice.