Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
A true friend is a sort of second self.
There are no true friends in politics.