There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

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.

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

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.

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.