Quotes About Friendship

He who has many friends has no friends.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas

The best kind of friendship, he maintains, is friendship with those to whom we wish well and with whom we can spend time in shared valuable activities, all because of their virtue.

The megalopsychos cannot let anyone else, except a friend, determine his life. For that would be slavish; and this is why all flatterers are servile and inferior people are flatterers.

So more friends than suffice for one's own life are superfluous, and a hindrance to noble loving; there is therefore no need of them. In the case of friends for pleasure, too, a few are enough, as a little seasoning in food is enough. (page 177)

For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not.

Algunos creen q para ser amigos basta con querer, como si para estar sanos bastara con desear buena salud

Nadie puede trabar amistad con otro si no ha experimentado la benevolencia

Concluons donc qu'on est ami dès qu'on souhaite à un autre ce qu'on souhaite pour soi-même.

cualquier manera de amistad es vivir en conversación y compañía

But people are most likely to think that they can do wrong without paying the penalty if they are good speakers or men of affairs or have wide experience of litigation, or if they have many friends, or if they are rich.

Friends are a comfort in misfortune but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy...

It is plain then that the wicked man cannot be in the position of a friend even towards himself, because he has in himself nothing which can excite the sentiment of Friendship. If then to be thus is exceedingly wretched it is a man's duty to flee from wickedness with all his might and to strive to be good, because thus may he be friends with himself and may come to be a friend to another.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they do need friendship in addition; and in the realm of the just things, the most just seems to be what involves friendship.

Over the next eight years, almost without noticing, I arrived at a quiet revelation. You could make a home by yourself. You could fill that home with friends and friendly strangers without someone sleeping next to you. You could tend your garden and cook your meals and find predictable pleasure in your own autonomy.

Mary Ann was shaken until she noticed that the landlady was smiling. "You'll get used to my babbling," said Mrs. Madrigal. "All the others have." She walked to the window, where the wind made her kimono flutter like brilliant plumage.

When Connie rounded the corner several seconds later, she found her friend standing glumly by herself, squeezing a roll of Charmin.

A half-hour conversation with Binky was like eating a Whitman Sampler in one sitting.

Oh . . . I'm prying, aren't I? Mrs. Madrigal smiled. I hope it means we're friends.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality

Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you.

And Stormgren hoped that when Karellen was free to walk once more on Earth, he would one day come to these northern forests, and stand beside the grave of the first man to be his friend.

Martin's one of the nicest fellows you could meet, as long as you don't do it too often.