6. When in distress, we love to see a friend’s face. Both in trouble and in joy friendship is beneficial. Friendship reduces sorrow in times of pain arl adds to joy in happy times.
7. Persons with whom we can share our innermost feelings are our most intimate friends.
8. If it is built onmon interests and similar moral standards, friendship is strong.
9. A true friend does not always agree with his friends, nor does he always disagree. He accepts what is reasonable and opposes what is unreasonable. Therefore the duty of a friend is to speak frankly.
10. A friendship in which pleasure predominates over righteousness cannot last.
11. Those who claim many intimate friends have not even one intimate friend.
12. Our duties towards our friends go as far as justice requires.
13. Where there are friends, there is success.
14. If we see a person’s friends are as numerous as trees in a forest, we know his virtue is very great. If we see a person’s friends as few as the morning stars, we then know his virtue is very slight.
15. To make friends with a noble person is difficult; to make friends with rascals is easy. What is hard to bring together is hard to separate. What is easily brought together is easily separated.
16. If two persons are good friends in ordinary times, b