Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.