"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."
~ Sir Francis Bacon
"Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that."
~ Sir Francis Bacon
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."
~ Henry Ward Beecher
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
