Friendship

"If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves."

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by doubling our joys and dividing our grief."

"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

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

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

"True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you."

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."

"Hell is other people."

"If you can't see yourself working with someone for life, don't work with them for a day."

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

"True friends stab you in the front."

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."