Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere.
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Friends are thieves of time.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the trust, the nearest and dearest!
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
