Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Groups

    Friends

    group · 7 works · 9 mentions · 17 anchored passages

    friends · comrades · children · closest friends · faithful friends · friend · loved by friends · man of goodwill · men who are my friends · necessary friends

    in the texts

    HieroClassical · Greek

    Those bound by affection and mutual aid; Hiero argues despots are especially deprived of them.

    First let us consider whether friendship is a great blessing to mankind.
    chapter 3
    Even states are not blind to the fact that friendship is a very great blessing, and very delightful to men.
    chapter 3
    You said that you envy us our unrivalled power to confer benefits on our friends, and our unrivalled success in crushing our enemies.
    chapter 6

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    Social companions or patrons whose aid, affection, and reciprocal favors matter in moral and practical life.

    I live on the generosity of any friend I pick up.
    chapter 15
    Then can I adapt this plan to the pursuit of friends?
    chapter 3
    For assuredly you can neither catch a friend nor keep him by violence;
    chapter 3

    Exhortation to the Newly BaptizedLate Antiquity · Greek

    Companions toward whom the addressee should avoid contentiousness and mockery.

    Be not contentious toward your friends, nor a mocker against them and a maker of jests;
    exhortation to the newly baptized

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Those the king loves and treats as necessary companions, distinguished from kin by the possibility of dissolving the bond.

    And the living he loves most of all, and counts them necessary friends.
    oration 3
    For friends one may dissolve relations with, when one has discerned some unpleasantness in them;
    oration 3

    To AntipaterClassical · Greek

    The valued companions and beneficiaries whose loyalty, usefulness, and need for care motivate Isocrates' intervention.

    for everything else I have neglected and have had thought for this one thing alone—to show my zeal on behalf of men who are my friends and who have become very dear to me.
    to antipater
    In addition to these good qualities he possesses frankness in the highest degree, not that outspokenness which is objectionable, but that which would rightly be regarded as the surest indication of devotion to his friends.
    to antipater
    and partly believing you are not unaware that the most agreeable and profitable of all things is to win by one’s kind deeds friends who are at the same time both loyal and useful, and to befriend men of such character that on their account many others also will be grateful to you.
    to antipater

    To NicoclesClassical · Greek

    Friends are the king's associates, advisers, kin, and gift-givers, valued when they are loyal, truthful, and useful for rule.

    Do not give your friendship to everyone who desires it, but only to those who are worthy of you;
    to nicocles
    Honor with office those of your friends who are nearest of kin, but honor in very truth those who are the most loyal.
    to nicocles
    Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.
    to nicocles

    EconomicsClassical · Greek

    Friends are a social group who can be wealth when useful, can expect help, witness promises, and exemplify loyalty around Cyrus.

    But how about friends?
    chapter 1
    Wealth, of course, and much more so than cattle, if it be true that they are more profitable than cattle.
    chapter 1
    But your friends, though far better supplied with means to support their establishment than you, yet look to receive help from you.
    chapter 2