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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the

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

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Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such a time takes flight and, in her absence, wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride. – Pietro Aretino

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Anger
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Pietro Aretino
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. – Pietro Aretino

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Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. – Lucan

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Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. – Mortimer Adler

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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