Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]
Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.
As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris
