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; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
AristotlePeople of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
AristotleA courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
AristotleBut a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.
Aristotle