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There are a lot of articles about friendship. ... Friendship, as we know, is the close relationship of the people who have hurdled the good and the bad times together. ... However, the length of time you’ve known the person is not the major factor in building a quality friendship. ... Friendship is being open to one another. ... Friendship is acceptance! ... Friendship is about mutuality, equity!
Most of us know friendship; most of us have experienced it. ... Montaigne tells us that it is the “general and universal warmth, moderate and even,” in contrast to love and marriage (On Friendship par. ... Francine du Plessix Gray interprets Montaigne’s words as the “ advantages of friendship over any kind of romantic or physical attachment” (On Friendship par. ... There are a lot of reasons why friendship is betterr than any form of relationship. ...
Friendship is an involvement of at least two beings. ... ” (On Friendship par. ... As du Plessix Gray said, “ a human need for friendship.”
What is friendship in general? ...
Friendship should be selfless. Giving and sharing without expecting anything back as La Rochefoucauld found out that” friendship is the only human bond in which the tyrannical cycle of our self-love seems broken”; “we can love each other even more than love ourselves” (On Friendship par. ... A friendship isn’t going to last long if a person only loves himself. ... That’s why according to Cicero, “the man least capable of friendship is the tyrant” since the tyrant has the need for power over the other, to show superiority and therefore is the man most likely to have an unsuccessful relationship with human beings.
Approximate Word count = 1289
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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