Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.