"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.












Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

More Aristotle quotes
"A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
"A friend to all is a friend to none.
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
"Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.
"Between friends there is no need of justice.
"He who hath many friends hath none.
"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
"Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
"In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.
"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action t...