“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
― Aesop’s Fables
― Aesop’s Fables
“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
― De Senectute, De Amicitia
― De Senectute, De Amicitia
“You might even ask me to apply my 'theory' to myself and explain what damage I had suffered a long way back and what its consequences might be: for instance, how it might affect my reliability and truthfulness. I'm not sure I could answer this, to be honest.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”
― Reflections
― Reflections
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