The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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