It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.