Friendship, like everything else in this globalized life, has expanded in the era of the social network Facebook, but in social practice we know, without resorting to modern science, that true friends, unlike digital ones, They count on the fingers of the hands, and it is that friendship is the family we choose, unlike the caste that is imposed by blood ties.
Friendship is more difficult and rarer than love, for this reason, it must be saved no matter what, says Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), while for the French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) true friends have to get angry from time to time.
The truth is that the friend must be, in essence, unconditional. For something the American essayist, Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) confessed: A friend is one who knows everything about you and, despite this, he loves you.
For the English writer William Shakespeare (1564-1616) the friends you have and whose friendship you have already put to the test / hook them to your soul with steel hooks”, that is, we must keep them in our select club.
Friends cannot be just for sharing happy moments and about this the great Hindu philosopher and writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) said: “True friendship is like phosphorescence, it shines better when everything has darkened.”
On the other hand, true friends, when we see dangers, have the duty to alert and on this aspect the French poet Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) commented: “the bad thing about a friend is that he says unpleasant things to our faces; the enemy says them behind our backs and since we don’t find out, nothing happens.
Friendship has always been selective and for that reason the Spanish writer Pío Baroja (1872-1956) argued: “Only fools have many friendships. The greatest number of friends marks the maximum degree on the dynamometer of stupidity. One friend in a lifetime is already a lot. Two is too many. Three are impossible, warned the American writer and historian, Henry Adams (1838-1918).
About living friendship intensely, the Lebanese essayist, novelist and poet, Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), said: Do not look for a friend to kill the hours, but look for him with hours to live.
The loyal friend laughs at your jokes, even if they are not so good, and sympathizes with your problems, even if they are not so serious, argued Arnold H. Glasow, however, the false friend is like the shadow that follows us while the Sun lasts., stated the Italian writer Carlo Dossi (1849-1910). A friend is a person with whom you can think aloud, concluded the American poet and thinker Emerson (1803-1882).
For Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American statesman and scientist, a father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort: a friend is both. Friendship is everything. Friendship is worth more than talent. Worth more than the government. Friendship is worth almost as much as family, said the American writer Mario Puzo (1920-1999).
Friends often become thieves of our time, commented, far away in human history, the Greek philosopher Plato (427 BC-347 BC). Friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human, stated the Spanish philosopher and writer, George Santayana (1863-1952).
One of the joys of friendship is knowing who to trust, said the Italian poet and writer, Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873). If there is something I have learned, it is that pity is more intelligent than hate, that mercy is still preferable to justice itself, that if one goes through the world with a friendly look, one makes good friends, endorsed Philip Gibbs.
For the Greek philosopher Socrates, a friend must be like money, because before you need it, you know its value. For the French writer Jean de la Bruyere (1645-1696) “friendship cannot go very far when neither is willing to forgive each other for small defects.
For the loving French writer and playwright, Jules Renard (1864-1910) “between a man and a woman, friendship is just a catwalk that leads to love.” Should be find the friends like the good books.
Happiness is not that there are many or very curious; but few, good and well known, said the Spanish novelist, Mateo Alemán (1547-1613). The greatness of the definition of friendship was expressed by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, when he poetically concluded: “friendship is a soul that inhabits two bodies; a heart that dwells in two souls”.
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