Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Nothing is great like friendship on earth, No jewel No pearl has got it's worth. No one except a friend can be trusted, Your life will never ever get rusted.
- Anonymous
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
- Cicero
It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.
- Anonymous
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
- Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
- CS Lewis
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
- Mortimer Adler
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
- Epicurus
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
- Aristotle