Classic Moments Daily

Reverence the faculty which produces opinion

Look carefully after the interests of friends

When you put friends to the test

Friends will not demand from each other anything unless it is honorable and just

There is a sort of disaster in connection with breaking off friendships

Calling friendship to account

Friendship cannot exist except among good men

One who is untouched by the same influences as yourself and is naturally unsympathetic cannot be either loyal or steadfast

He who has shown himself staunch, immovable, and firm in friendship ought to be considered almost divine!

Fickle men and friendship

Feeble is the struggle of human nature against power

For how will it be possible for anyone to be a friend to a man who, he believes, may be his foe?

good men forgo, or permit themselves to be deprived of, many conveniences in order that their friends rather than themselves may enjoy them

But what is more foolish, when men are in the plenitude of resources and not procure friends

Power, if it be very great, is a bar to faithful friendships

Tarquin as he was going into exile: “I have learned what friends of mine are true and what are false, now that I am no longer able to reward or punish either

Can anyone love either the man whom he fears, or the man by whom he believes himself to be feared?

Nothing gives more pleasure than the return of goodwill and the interchange of zealous service

It is annoying to be too much involved in the affairs of other people

In friendship, let the influence of friends who are wise counselors be paramount