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.

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.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Friendship is love without his wings!

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

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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