The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.