Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I’d probably choose success. 2.22K
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. 505
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they’re really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. 589
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. 515
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. 518
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? 2.34K
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. 543