It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
A true friend is discerned during an uncertain matter.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
It is the fool's misfortune to fail in obtaining the position, the employment, the neighbourhood, and the circle of friends that suit him.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Advise your friends in private, praise them openly.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
For whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.
I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
The artist can wish for nothing better than blunt friends and polite enemies.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
