"So true it is that nature abhors isolation, and ever leans upon something as a stay and support; and this is found in its most pleasing form in our closest friend."
Cicero.
"And great and numerous as are the blessings of friendship, this certainly is the sovereign one, that it gives us bright hopes for the future and forbids weakness and despair. In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self. So that where his friend is he is; if his friend be rich, he is not poor; though he be weak, his friend's strength is his; and in his friend's life he enjoys a second life after his own is finished."
Cicero.
"In distress a friend
Comes like a calm to the toss'd mariner."
Euripides.
AUGUST 17
"A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself."
Amiel's Journal.