COMMENTARY ON FRIENDSHIP

Euripides wrote, "Life has no blessings like a prudent friend."
Aristotle said, "Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Plautus just about agrees, he said, "What is thine is mine, and all mine in thine."
Cicero also: He said, "A friend is, as it were, a second self."
Byron more poetically sang, "Friendship is love without wings."
Aristotle wrote, "He who has many friends, has none."
While Cicero thought that, "To give council as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship."

Most of us are aware of the difficulty in trusting anyone completely, as far too often we regret doing so.

Shakespeare wrote, "Words are easy like the wind, faithful friends are hard to find."
Quarles said, "Friendship will not continue to the end, which is begun for an end."
Ovid made a fine point when he said, "As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be tried in adversity"

COMMENTARY ON FRIENDSHIP

©Copyright December 1, 2005 by Colin F. Jones