Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.
People generally despise where they flatter.
We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
In hard times and other misfortunes, true friends are a safe place. They keep young people out of trouble, comfort and help the old in their weakness, and encourage those in their prime to do good deeds.
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
