Quotes from Sir Francis Bacon

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

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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