Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Cato Lose not a thought on me, I'm out of danger. Heaven will not leave me in the victor's hand. Caesar shall never say, I conquered Cato. But, oh! my friends, your safety fills my heart With anxious thoughts: a thousand secret terrors 115 Rise in my soul: how shall I save my friends! 'Tis now, O Caesar, I begin to fear thee.

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

Screw you, Aech! And your dead grandma!

I understood her, trusted her, and lover her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames. It was hard not to love the guy. Back

Audacious quip of Teresa of Avila when she was energetically engaged in reforming the Carmelite monasteries, traveling all over Spain by oxcart on bad roads. One day she was thrown from her cart into a muddy stream. She shook her fist at God, "God, if this is the way you treat your friends, no wonder you don't have many.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.