People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
—Jean-Paul Sartre
You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
—Søren Kierkegaard
I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle–what joy, then, would you have in it?
—Søren Kierkegaard
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
—Thomas Jefferson
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friends who have no religion cannot be long our friends.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
—Thomas Edison
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
—Aristotle
Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
—Seneca
I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind.
—Seneca
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
—Seneca
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
– Henry Ford
The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.
—Charlie Chaplin
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
—Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
—Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
—Aristotle
A friend is a second self.
—Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
—Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
—Aristotle
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
—Mark Twain
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
—Mark Twain
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
—Cicero
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I poured out my soul for all the world, friends, and enemies.
—David Brainerd
Oh, how I delighted to pray and cry to God! I saw God was both able and willing to do all that I desired, for myself and friends, and his church in general.
—David Brainerd
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
—Isaac Newton
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
—Blaise Pascal
O my friends, it is not enough that the object of your duties is spiritual, that they respect a holy God or that the matter is spiritual, that you be conversant about holy things; but that the frame of your heart must be spiritual, a heavenly temper of soul is necessary.
—John Flavel