“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”
“The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.”
“Borunia: Why do you want to be my friend?Samarga: I want to know if we can be friends.”
“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”
“I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.”
“If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.”