Real friends stab you in the front.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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 good friend will always stab you in the front.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.