Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there

Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.