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“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
William Penn
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
Oscar Wilde
“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”
Pietro Aretino
“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”
Billy Wilder
“This above all; to thine own self be true.”
William Shakespeare
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
Thomas Merton
“When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.”
William Barclay
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”
Bernard Meltzer
“True friends stab you in the front.”
“Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.”
Kay Knudsen
