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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the
kind of friends he chooses.
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Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.
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Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
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Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.
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Friendship, a covalent bond, powerful and without any expectations.
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Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
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The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy
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Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith! ...
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Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap and quick and easy; we want variety; and we want novelty. But friendship requires a whole other set of mind.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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There are strange friendships: two friends almost want to devour each other, and they spend their entire lives living that way, but meanwhile they cannot part.
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Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.
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Friendship is one soul in two bodies.
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There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.
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Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
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His manner somehow friendly and courtly at the same time.
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It is a curious psychological fact that those who make their personal love public, and "dear" one another with saccharine epithets, are very often those who when alone quarrel and fight.
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A real relationship is two-way.
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Friendship is ... the sort of love one can
imagine between angels ...
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What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking
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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.
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For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and each other, and, what does not always follow, men who thoroughly enjoyed each other's company.
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shoulders touching in a way that's only mostly platonic. It's inevitable, she supposes, that God would call her bluff.
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I was about to add it was as likely a friendship as Lucifer and the Archangel Michael sharing a jug of ale, but I stopped myself. [Vincent]
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Two of a kind, both with separated minds...
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Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.
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Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds it endearing and encouraging that a legendary Roman philosopher had to reassure himself that it's okay not to be Plato.
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An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.
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I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.
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The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.
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Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
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True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
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Friendship is identification and difference
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There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I've experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there's this other love out there.
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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail ... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.
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People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.
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Romantic Egoist
Besides, love is just one among many mysteries that logic alone cannot explain.
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for the other sort of intimate acquaintance,
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Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,
by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,
becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Relationality [is] not only [a] descriptive or historical fact of our formation, but also an ongoing normative dimension of our social and political lives, one in which we are compelled to take stock of our interdependence.
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The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
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Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
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Nonmonogamous folks are constantly engaged in their relationships: they negotiate and establish boundaries, respect them, test them, and, yes, even violate them. But the limits are not assumed or set by society; they are consciously chosen.
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Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the laboratory and in philosophy, and consequently the difference between the destination of mankind and its present course.
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To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.
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So the platonic Year
Whirls out new right and wrong,
Whirls in the old instead;
All men are dancers and their tread
Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong.
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Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.
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This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie!
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
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The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior.
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Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves ...
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Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, Here is Plato's man.
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A little more than kin, a little less than kind.
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Plato understood love as a powerful engine that can destroy mankind or turn us to the good. Christ made that turn possible, and Spenser shows what can be done in the human soul if we take it.
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All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.
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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
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What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.
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Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision ...
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Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.
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Mates such as they must stand by one another
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Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.
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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
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Frienship is eros ... without wings
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In human relationships, those who do not love are rarely loved: those who will not be friends end up by having none. [p. 15 apud Thinking Strategically; on the "Intransigence strategy"]
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Friends ... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
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We are tutor and student. Roommates. Sparring partners. Friends. Anything you want us to be. A
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Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call
That bides the spheres become articulate.
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Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.
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Made in the image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent purpose. We long to be an irreplaceable part of a shared adventure.
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Friendship either finds or makes equals.
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In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.
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Jokes, secrets, complicities; a glance here, a word there: that is their way of being together, of being apart.
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Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.
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I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.
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Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.
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Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.
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With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Our inner male and female sides are expressed on the outside as relationships. Often our longer and deeper relationships with an outer man or woman are a mirror of our own inner man or woman.
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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
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When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of love.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.