My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.