Pastoral Resources

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.