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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