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

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

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

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.

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

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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

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.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of 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.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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.

Children make your life important.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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