The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Quote by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Topics: Friendship Quotes, Love Quotes

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Change everything except your loves.

Change everything except your loves.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked...

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked...

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried...

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried...

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything...

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything...

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a...

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a...

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

True friends stab you in the front.

True friends stab you in the front.

He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he...

He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he...

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either...

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either...

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have...

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have...

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The...

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The...

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

You never really know someone until you have been their friend.

You never really know someone until you have been their friend.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Love is all you need.

Love is all you need.