Relationships Quotes

"Relationships are built on trust and honesty."

"Every passion is not susceptible of the same increase and alterations"

"When we entertain some suspicion that a person is acting from some base motive, we make a small pause"

"Marriage should be based on duty, not passion."

"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others."

"When the happiness or misery of others depends in any respect upon our conduct, we dare not, as self-interest might suggest, either sacrifice them to that conduct, or even sacrifice anything to them."

"It is impossible that one man should ever naturally be required to love another as himself."

"The regard which we have for the persons of the great and wise is produced by sympathy."

"Relationships are the crucible in which self-consciousness is forged."

"Relationships mirror the development of consciousness itself."

"Discourse and conversation are the cement of the commonwealth."

"A man separated from others is a man bereft of power."

"Relationships built on respect endure all trials."

"Relationships reflect the values we hold."

"We are like chameleons; we take our hue and the color of our moral character from those who are about us."

"God, having designed man for a sociable creature, made him unfit to live alone."

"The best of life is conversation and the best of conversation is truth."

"We cannot live only for ourselves; a thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."

"Relationships require honesty, respect, and commitment."

"The quality of our relationships is the true measure of a well-lived life."

"All jealousy arises from insufficient understanding of oneself or others."

"The human heart by nature desires the esteem and approbation of those around it."

"In the commercial society, the interdependence of men creates mutual bonds of obligation and respect."

"The desire to be observed, to be attended to, to be taken notice of, is a desire which cannot be entirely suppressed."

"God has made man such a creature that he is not capable of being alone."

"Whoever is not content in marriage will never be content anywhere."

"The social virtues must arise from sympathy with others."

"The greatest pleasure in life is conversation."

"Man is by nature a social creature, yet forever isolated in his own mind."

"The isolated individual is limited; those united by reason become infinite."