If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
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