[Friendship] manifests all the virtues by its own charms; it assails vices by its own virtue; it tempers adversity and moderates prosperity. As a result, scarcely any happiness whatsoever can exist among mankind without friendship, and a man is to be...
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[Friendship] manifests all the virtues by its own charms; it assails vices by its own virtue; it tempers adversity and moderates prosperity. As a result, scarcely any happiness whatsoever can exist among mankind without friendship, and a man is to be compared to a beast if he has no one to rejoice with him in adversity, no one to whom to unburden his mind if any annoyance crosses his path or with whom to share some…illuminating inspiration. “Woe to him that is alone, for when he falls, he has none to lift him up.” He is entirely alone who is without a friend. - Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167), Spiritual Friendship
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