If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!
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