Friendship Quotes

"I prefer the friendship of a single wise man to the company of a thousand fools."

"Better to have a handful of well-chosen friends than multitudes of acquaintances."

"It is more fitting to celebrate in the presence of friends than in the presence of one's status."

"Friendship built on virtue lasts longer than friendship based on pleasure alone."

"The lover of wisdom becomes a friend to all humanity, for wisdom transcends all divisions."

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery."

"Without the company of friends, no one would want to live."

"There is nothing in the world so important as friendship."

"A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."

"Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual good-will and affection."

"The rule of friendship is a certain equality."

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

"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind agrees."

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."

"Friendship is an immortal, deathless thing."

"The greatest good is friendship."

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."

"You who have come of age should understand that friendship is the most precious of all possessions."

"If we don't have the opportunity to dine and spend time with friends, we cannot live a pleasant life."

"Friendship goes dancing round the world proclaiming to all of us that we ought to awake and realize that supreme good."

"True friendship is impossible without virtue; for with virtue come understanding and confidence, both essential to genuine friendship."

"We should seek out friends who will help us while they can, not those who wait until we are in dire need."

"It is natural to wish well to those we have once made our friends."

"Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the whole life, far the greatest is the acquisition of friendship."

"Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."

"Distrust is the poison of friendship."

"A true friend stabs you in the front."

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."

"A friendship built on mutual illusion is no friendship at all, but a shared delusion."