Common Quote by Maria Edgeworth

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

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know…

— Henry David Thoreau

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

— Anonymous

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

— Elizabeth I

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

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“A true friendship is one where you share both Philosophies and Vulnerabilities”.”

— Philip McKernan

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

“Your friendships become as rich and enduring as your application of the law of reciprocity.”

— John Arthur

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater