"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
~ Pietro Aretino (1537)
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
~ The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
"A friend loves at all times."
~ The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
~ James Boswell (1763).
