Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.