No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
No one has really ever defined what a friend is.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
A friend to all is a friend to none.