Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
Themes
Friendship
Companionship, solitude, and the rare equal.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit — this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
The one who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others cannot live without him is even more mistaken.
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.