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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

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