Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.
My best friend is someone who truly wishes me well for my own sake.
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.
Our opinions change when we are happy and friendly compared to when we are upset and hostile.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.