Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Those truly linked don't need correspondence.
When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do
Think up something appropriate and do it.
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
All love that has not friendship for its base,Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
