Additions
[1906]
Greek Times
Aristotle
Aristotle (Ethics bk. viii.) says:
“Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.”... “Since then his own life is, to a good man, a thing naturally sweet and ultimately desirable, for a similar reason is the life of his friend agreeable to him, and delightful merely on its own account, and without reference to any object beyond it; and to live without friends is to be destitute of a good, unconditioned, absolute, and in itself desirable; and therefore to be deprived of one of the most solid and most substantial of all enjoyments.”
“Being asked ‘What is Friendship?’ Aristotle replied ‘One soul in two bodies.’” Diog. Laertius.
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