‘The desire for friendship comes quickly. Friendship does not'.
Aristotle

 

‘Friendship is the most dangerous love of all because the other loves can exist without communication, but friendship is totally based on it.'
Francis de Sales

 

‘I hate the prostitutions of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances'
Ralph Emerson

 

‘When the old lost their companions, their friends, they also lost their interpreters: they lost love, but they also lost the full power of speech.'
Julian Barnes

 

‘A true friend stabs you in the front.'
Oscar Wilde

 

‘Friendship can be for us a veritable school of sympathy, susceptible of progressively extending itself to all human beings and finally to the cosmos itself'.
Ignace Lepp

 

‘It is not wrong to want to be happy, but it is wrong to want to be happy all alone.'
Albert Camus

 

‘Shared joy, not compassion, makes a friend.'
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

‘Most friendship is feigning; most loving mere folly.'
William Shakespeare

 

‘When the ways of friends converge, the whole world looks like home for an hour.'
Hermann Hesse

 

‘A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.'
Ralph Emerson

 

‘Even when he is dead, he is still alive. He is alive because his friends still cherish him, and remember him, and long for him.'
Cicero

 

‘I hope I'd have the courage to choose my friend over my country.'
E.M. Forster

 

‘The more the chains of friendship are pulled together and tightened, the more elbow room and freedom they give.'
Francis de Sales

 

‘A man is happy if he has merely encountered the shadow of a friend'.
Menander

 

‘Host not many but host not none.'
Aristotle

 

‘Diana lost the ability to take advice she didn't like from her close friends, and when they did offer it to her she dumped them, leaving her with friends that didn't offer her this hard part of friendship.'
Clive James

 

‘The noble man is most involved with wisdom and friendship.'
Epicurus

 

‘Friendship dances around the world announcing to all of us that we must wake up to blessedness.'
Epicurus

 

‘A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.'
Aristotle

 

‘We [must] challenge our friends to be who and what they really are without ever implying in the challenge a withdrawal of our affection for them.'
Francis de Sales

 

'An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.' 
Proverbs

 

'A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.' 
Jim Morrison

 

'Friends have all things in common.' 
Plato

 

'I get by with a little help from my friends.' 
John Lennon and Paul McCartney

 

'Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.' 
Oscar Wilde

 

‘If what is communicated is evil, vain and frivolous, then the friendship is evil, vain and frivolous. For a true and genuine friendship to exist, something good has to be communicated.'
Francis de Sales