The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
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And the love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
He meant friends owe something good to their friends, never something bad.
Friends possess everything in common.
Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.
Perhaps it is impossible to understand one’s own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked? You might say – yes you might say, nature without humanity.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
