Chaste Quote by W. H. Auden

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,…

— David Hume

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

— Joseph Addison

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

— George Santayana

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

— Aristotle

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

— Seneca the Younger

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

— George Santayana

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

— Mencius

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and…

— Lord Byron

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

— Seneca the Younger