May 19, 2021 | True Friendship, True Friendship (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“Those who have a host of friends and are on familiar terms with everybody seem to be real friends of no one.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics It is our worst nightmare. Everyone else has real friends. But somehow I don’t, because I’m just not up to it, or people just...
Jan 27, 2021 | True Friendship, True Friendship (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“Besides, friendship is especially necessary for living…” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics There are two reasons we might not give true friendship the priority it deserves. For some, it seems to us that we already have it. Or in any case, it is not evident to us...
Dec 2, 2020 | Man of the Household, True Friendship, True Friendship (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“First house and wife and an ox for the plough.” Hesiod, Works and Days I think I am not alone in feeling unsettled these days. I experience a subtle, low-grade but constant stress, a sense of foreboding that tends toward fear. Where are things going in our nation and...
Apr 10, 2019 | True Friendship, True Friendship (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“…the absent are present, the poor are rich, the weak are strong, and—even more difficult—the dead are alive.” Cicero, On Friendship In our times the issue of presence deserves special attention. What constitutes real human presence? Too often, it seems, those who are...
Nov 29, 2017 | True Friendship, True Friendship (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“In choosing and testing friends you should not grow weary of caution, for the fruit of this labor is medicine for life and the most solid foundation for immortality.” Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship In his great treatise Aelred names four steps of true...
Oct 18, 2017 | True Friendship, True Friendship (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“…they have little taste for conversation, which especially seems to be the mark and cause of friendship.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics One of the most notable aspects of Aristotle’s understanding of true friendship is just how much it requires of a...
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