"Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."
— Friendship

January 1, 1970

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Jean Hérault, sieur de Gourville as quoted in Considérations sur l'esprit et les moeurs (1788) by Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan; a similar remark "May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies." has become attributed to Voltaire, since at least 1908, but without sourcing