One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
Oh, we who wanted to prepare the ground for friendliness could not ourselves be friendly.[Ach, wir Die wir den Boden bereiten wollten für Freundlichkeit Konnten selber nicht freundlich sein.]
Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.[Rien ne fortifie l’amitié comme lorsque, de deux amis, l’un se croit supérieur à l’autre.]
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
No friendship will hold out against a surprised secret.[A pas d’amitié qui tienne à un secret surpris.]
Never will you trust your old friend.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend.
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!
Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
