Character Quote by Mary Astell

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“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

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

— Ben Jonson

Friendship is a relationship that is given to few, but desired by all.

— Anonymous

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

— Mohanlal

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

— Anonymous

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

— Cardinal Richelieu