Blaise Pascal Quotes

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.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Secrets don’t make friends.

Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more about what harms you.

Treat your friends as if they were going to be your enemies one day.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends.

I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if it's about me. I just don't need to hear extra garbage.

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.