Quotes

Friendship is superior to kinship, because goodwill can be taken away from kinship, but not from friendship.

He who will not share his wealth with others is not worth befriending.

When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, and their bad qualities I will correct in myself.

Friendship seems to lie in loving rather than in being loved.

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

It is easy to be good when all is well; it is in hardship that heroes are known!

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of the whole of life, by far the greatest is the possession of friendship.