Character Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

— Walter Savage Landor

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Mary Astell

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

— William Hazlitt

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

— Eustace Budgell

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories.…

— Henri Nouwen

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 IS ABOUT TRUSTING, LOVING, SHARING, AND CARING.

— Anonymous

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

— Thalia

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

— Pope John Paul II