—Bacon.
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There is no better medicine for grief than the advice of a good and honored friend. He who, in his sufferings, excites and tries to soothe his mind by wine, though he may have pleasure for a moment, has a double portion of pain afterwards.
—Euripides.
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Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.
—Lyle.
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The good man has the same relation to his friend as he has to himself.
—Aristotle.