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The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

The truth is our friend.

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.