“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain’t no way we can be friends.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.

I’m surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don’t have any problem telling me I’m acting like an idiot or I’m not that funny.

Sometimes you’ll laugh. Sometimes you’ll cry. Life never tells us, the when’s or why’s. When you’ve got friends, to wish you well. You’ll find your point when. You will exhale.

Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend’s gonna have to prove they’re your friend, and you’re gonna have to prove you’re their friend.

Nobody makes me do anything I don’t want to do. It’s my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.

I have normal friends. I sit at my house, and they practically live with me, and I watch them get ready to go to a high school party, hang out with their friends, go to concerts.