Quotes about "Friendship & Relationships"

Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share. ”

I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth. ”

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration. ”

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ”

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ”

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. ”

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it. ”

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. ”

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ”

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. ”