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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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