Friendship

Prosperity is full of friends.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him .

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late .

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction .

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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.