Seneca the Younger Quotes

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.

I'm good at keeping secrets. My friends always tell me their secrets because I keep them well.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

What you would hide from an enemy don't tell a friend.

Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of "diary," to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.

The real friend is another self.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear.

I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends.

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous.