Seneca the Younger Quotes

The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.

Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

I take friendship very seriously.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

It takes people a while to trust you.

I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.

I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.

If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.

The truth is our friend.