friendship and goodwill
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
goodwill · benefactor · favours · friendly relations · friendly terms · friends · friendship · friendships · intimacy
in the texts
To Philip, I
The political bond Philip is urged to cultivate with Athens and the Greeks.
yet if you are able to win friendships and goodwill, all will praise the wisdom shown by you.
I know not what more I need to say, except this only—that it will be a fine thing for you to entrust your royal power and your existing prosperity into the keeping of the goodwill of the Hellenic race.
Yet is there any reason why you should not eagerly grasp at a relationship of goodwill such that you will hold securely not only your present dominion, but also without risk acquire another great one?
Cyropaedia
Voluntary loyalty and reciprocal goodwill that Cyrus seeks to create through mercy, favors, and fair settlement.
But if I had servants who I thought assisted me, as in duty bound, out of goodwill and friendship toward me, I think I should be better satisfied with them when they did wrong than with others who disliked me, when they performed all their tasks faithfully but from compulsion.
and upon these conditions they interchanged assurances of friendship, and agreed that each party should be independent of the other, that there should be the right of intermarriage and of mutual tillage and pasturage in each other’s territory, and that there should be a defensive alliance, in case any one should injure either party.
From those, I presume, said he, who have never been my enemies, if I would do them such favours as you now bid me do you.