True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.