Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
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.
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.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
