I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends, who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.