FRIENDSHIP THOUGHTS, TRUE MEANING OF LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY

ARISTOTLE VIEW

350 years before Christ, Aristotle produced profound reflexions about friendship and its place in our lives, in his Nicomachean Ethics

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
Aristotle, 384-322 b.C., Greek philosopher, Nicomachean Ethics

Friendship is a virtue, and the most necessary thing.

Aristotle, 384-322 b.C., Greek philosopher, Nicomachean Ethics

Friendship is one soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle, 384-322 b.C., Greek philosopher, in Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Nobody would choose to live without friends even if he had all the other good things of life.
Aristotle, 384-322 b.C., Greek philosopher, Nicomachean Ethic

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EPICURUS VIEW ON FRIENDSHIP

Epicurus (341-270 b. C.) is the great philosopher of friendship. His reflexions are still relevant today.

Friendship dances around the world bidding us all to awaken to the recognition of happiness.
Epicurus, 341-270 a. C., Greek Philosopher, Vatican Sayings

The whole world offers a common house to those who prize friendship: the Earth.
Epicurist saying found in the portico of a roman farm of the second century

Of all the means which wisdom gives us to ensure happiness throughout ours lives, by far the most important is friendship.
Epicurus, 341-270 a. C., Greek Philosopher, Principal Doctrines

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter an immortal one.
Epicurus, 341-270 a. C., Greek Philosopher, Vatican Sayings

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FRIENDSHIP IS A TREASURE 

More recent thinkers point out the huge importance of friendship in our lives. Friendship is a treasure. Without it, life is a desert. The meaning of life is profoundly sustained by our webs of friendship.

Hell is all in the word solitude.
Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer, in E. Morin Method V

Of all the heavenly treasures that mortal men commend, what trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?
N. Grimald, 1519-1562, English poet, Of  friendship

Friendship redoubles joys and cut grieves in halves.
Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher and politician, Essays

A crowd is not company, faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher and politician, Essays

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Poems about life
Life and Love
Happiness
Philosophies of Life

 
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