Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.
Greek Quotes
by Aesop
Greek Quotes
by Euripides
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Roman Quotes
by Plautus
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Greek Quotes
by Epicurus
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Roman Quotes
by Seneca
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having
many acquaintances, but no friends.
Greek Quotes
by Saint Basil
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Greek Quotes
by Epictetus
Friend, lay hold with a desperate grasp, ere it is too late, on Freedom, on Tranquility, on Greatness of soul!
Roman Quotes
by Juvenal
If now a friend denies not what was given him in trust, If he restores an ancient purse with all its coins and rust, This prodigy of honesty deserves to be enrolled In Tuscan books, and with a sacrificial lamb extolled.
Greek Quotes
by Demosthenes
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Greek Quotes
by Aristotle
Such [communistic] legislation may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody’s friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different cause – the wickedness of human nature. Indeed, we see that there is much more quarrelling among those who have all things in common, though there are not many of them when compared with the vast numbers who have private property.
Chinese Quotes
by Confucius
To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?
Greek Quotes
by Sophocles
You win the victory when you yield to friends.