True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island … to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

- Baltasar Gracian

Monks, I say there is no wicked deed that may not be committed by…the human being who has transgressed in one thing. What one thing? I mean, the intentional uttering of a falsehood.

-Itivuttaka