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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.