For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he has all other goods.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

For there is no such thing:
Right person at the right time!
Instead with the right team,
Embrace Time that simply flies.
Never when meeting old friends
Does time really pass by?
In trust and truth they make amends
So Time they can really defy.
Hence, no one denies then:
In all it revitalizes.
Principled friendship never dies!

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.