Never promise more than you can perform.
Publilius SyrusRead
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
Interpretation
Losing a friend is one of the most profound emotional pains one can experience.
This quote emphasizes the deep emotional bond we share with friends and suggests that the loss of such a relationship can have a profound impact on one's life. Friendships are often integral to our happiness, support systems, and identity, and their absence can leave a significant void that is hard to fill.
In practice
In a eulogy for a lost friend, you might say this quote reflects the profound loss felt in their absence.
Never promise more than you can perform.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! β and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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