"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends."
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"I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race."
"There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five."
"If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss."
"Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . ."
"One has no friend who has many friends."
"Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]"
"Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine."
"He that has many friends, has no friends."
"Still here with my day jne niggas"
"Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me."
"Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy."
"In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents."
"Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends."
"I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime."
"The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends."
"I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends."
"The bit that one eates, no friend makes."
"Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there."