Quotes about Friendship

Not to shrug off a friend's resentment—even unjustified resentment—but try to put things right.

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......

We don't practise generosity in order to secure gratitude, nor do we invest our gifts in the hope of a favourable return. Rather, it is nature that inclines us towards generosity. Just so, we don't seek friendship with an expectation of gain, but regard the feeling of love as its own reward.

As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.

I worked with Diodotus the Stoic, who made his residence in my house, and after a life of long intimacy died there only a short time ago.

But of all the bonds of fellowship, there is none more noble, none more powerful than when good men of congenial character are joined in intimate friendship.

Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time. There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.