What a friend I have in you

Ever wonder how empty our lives would be without a friend who loves us, who cares about us, and who will always be there for us? Read what these famous people have to say about friends and friendship.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
Churton Collins

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.
W.B. Yeats

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius

Friendship is Love without his wings.
Lord Byron

It is the worst solitude, to have no true friendships.
Francis Bacon

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Cosimo de' Medici