Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Friendship Quotes

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain...

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain...

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain...

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain...

All authority belongs to the people

All authority belongs to the people

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more...

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more...

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads...

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads...

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and...

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and...

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show...

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show...

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise...

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise...

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the...

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the...

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of...

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of...

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like...

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like...

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Tranquility is the old man's milk

Tranquility is the old man's milk

I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a...

I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a...

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

If your heart tends to force friends to do as you say, seed of discord...

If your heart tends to force friends to do as you say, seed of discord...