Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. - Colette
2. The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. - Cicero
3. A friend is a present you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson
4. Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero
5. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. - Aristotle
6. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau
7. The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. - Robert Louis Stevenson
8. It is more ignominous to mistrust our friends than to be deceived by them. - La Rochefoucauld
9. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell
10. It is better to lose a new jest than an old friend. - Gabriel Harvey
11. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus
12. A common enemy does not a true friendship make. - Richard Stengel
13. Have no friends not equal to yourself. - Confucius