Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice