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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.