Fire And Water Are Not Of More

But As To The Affection Which Anyone May Have For Us, It Is The First Demand Of Duty That We Do Most For Him Who Loves Us Most; But We Should Measure Affection, Not Like Youngsters, By The Ardour Of Its Passion, But Rather By Its Strength And Constancy.

Not To Know What Has Been Transacted In Former Times Is To Continue Always A Child.

Let Flattery, The Handmaid Of The Vices, Be Far Removed (from Friendship). [lat., Assentatio, Vitiorum Adjutrix, Procul Amoveatur.]

You Must Therefore Love Me, Myself, And Not My Circumstances, If We Are To Be Real Friends.

While There's Life, There's Hope.