The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
Real friends stab you in the front.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friendship is love without his wings!
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.