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"He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all."
"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
"Happy is the house that shelters a friend!"
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
"I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them."
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
"The days .... come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away."
"Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
"When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition."
"The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."