True Friends

"I am lucky I know, because I have you as my friends who are always with me, through sad times, tough times, happy times. You have always believed in me, without you there would be.... no me. I am strong when I get your support. I feel warm when I am by your side, I am happy when I see your smile."

Adams

"The man who... has performed a generous action, when he looks forward to those whom he has served, feels himself to be the natural object of their love and gratitude, and by sympathy with them.... And when he looks backward to the motive from which he acted... he still continues to enter into it, and applauds himself by sympathy with the approbation of this supposed impartial judge."

Adam Smith

"Friendship... is a kind of virtue, or implies virtue, and it is also most necessary for living. Nobody would choose to live without friends even if he had all the other good things.... There are, however, not a few divergent views about friendship. Some hold that it is a matter of similarity: that our friends are those who are like ourselves..."

Aristotle