“If someone is desperate to befriend you - run away”
Old middle-east proverb
“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Better an honest enemy than a false friend”
German Proverb
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines”
Benjamin Franklin
“There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.”
Charles Kingsley
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
Aristotle
“If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.”
George Bernard Shaw