Character Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Mary Astell

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather…

— CS Lewis

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

— Mencius

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

— George Edward Woodberry

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other being equally…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

— CS Lewis