Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Men come and go - God knows they certainly have in my life - but girlfriends are for ever. I have a lot of girlfriends but only a few very, very close ones.

I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

As friends go it is less important to live.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their Friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other's presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man.

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.

I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.

Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.