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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, True Friend, Lying

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, Best Friend, Worst

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, Forgiveness, Forgiving
Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.154

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, Husband, Father
Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1857). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition”, p.62

Friends are thieves of time.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, Thieves
Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Philosophical works”, p.349

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, Men, Giving
Francis Bacon (2007). “Essays”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, Real, Solitude
Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1860). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Third edition”, p.306

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, Littles, World
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Followers and Friends'

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, Death, Home
Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.638

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Francis Bacon
Inspirational, Friendship, Grief
1625 Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, Heart, Mind Your Own Business
Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.49, 谷月社

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