Friend

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You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of a friend
We die as often as we lose a friend
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest; for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud
Every man's friend is no man's friend
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends
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