Étienne de la Boétie: Friendship ... flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity.

Friendship ... flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity. — Étienne de la Boétie

Friendship ... flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity.
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hund — Claude Mermet
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. — Jean de La Fontaine
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he e — William Cowper
What ill-starr'd rage Divides a friendship long confirm'd by age? — Alexander Pope
Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires ; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, j — Alexandre Dumas
Even Plato seems to me to be in all main points only a Brahmin’s good pupil. — Plato
The majority of mankind and people who lack refinement conceive it to be pleasur — Aristotle
An uneducated population may be degraded; a population educated, but not in righ — Henry Melvill
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. — Quant au bonheur
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is on — Marcus Aurelius
'Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either — Mikhail Bulgakov
Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas — Isaac Newton