“If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.”
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint
“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
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Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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