Air Quote by Confucius

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or…

— C. S. Lewis

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

— Euripides

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

— Walter Savage Landor

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

— Ben Jonson

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

— Aelred of Rievaulx

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is always full of friends.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek…

— Confucius

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

— Mary Astell

“The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the good life,…

— Mary Renault

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

— Mencius