Assumption Quote by Mencius

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

— Mencius

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

— Honore de Balzac

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

— John Lubbock

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

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

— Anonymous

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

— Samuel Johnson

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by…

— Anonymous

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what…

— Henry David Thoreau