"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

"One can do without people but one has need of a friend."
(Chinese Proverb)

"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."
(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

"The only way to have friends is to be one."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right."
(Mark Twain)

"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
(William Butler Yeats)

"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere."
(Anonymous)

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
(Charles Caleb Colton)

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
(G. Randolf)

"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
(Gore Vidal)