Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

For friendship, like freedom, must be tended.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Love is reflected in love.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.