We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.