All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Hatred is settled anger.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.