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

Abraham Lincoln

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It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

Vladimir Lenin

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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Mao Zedong

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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Chanakya

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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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends.

Taylor Swift

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