
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 21 (p. 233)
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”
“Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.”
Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio.
Maxim 1060
Sentences
Tony Lopez, "The natural successor to President Arroyo?", BizNews Asia, 11-18 June 2007, p. 26, ISSN 1655-7263.
2007
“Thou through such a mist dost show us,
That our best friends do not know us.”
A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)
“the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love”
Source: Les Fleurs du Mal