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.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

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.

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

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.