Capitolo 70
strength of thought he has described the breakups and violations of
friendship!--"Casteth of Whoso a stone to the birds, frayeth their street;
and him that upbraideth his/her friend, friendship of breaketh. Although you
drawest a sword to a friend, doesn't despair yet, for there you/he/she can be a
returning to favour. If you hasts opened thy they speak to emphatic way against thy
friend, doesn't fear, for there a reconciliation you/he/she can be: apart
reproaching, or the pride, or disclosing of secrets or an untrustworthy
wound; for, for these things every friend will depart." We am able
you observe in this and many other precepts in this author, those
the small family examples and illustrations that so a lot I am
admired in the moral writings of Horace and Epictetus. There is
very beautiful examples of this nature in the following passages,
what they are likewise written on the same subject: "Of whom
discovereth secrets, loseth his/her credit, and it will never find a
I befriend to his/her mind. You love friend of thy, and is faithful to him; but
if you the bewrayeth its secrets, follows more later anybody him: for as a
haths of the man destroyed its enemy, so hast you lost the love of thy
friend; as one that letteths a bird goes out of his/her hand, so hast you
you leave that friend of thy goes, and you/he/she won't find again it: follows later him no
more, for him it is too far of permission; he is as an eggs of fish escaped out of the
trap. As for a wound you/he/she can be tied up on, and after having insulted there
you/he/she can be reconciliation; but him that bewrayeth secrets, is without
the hope."
Among the a lot of qualifications of a good friend, this wise man has
very justly singled out constancy and the fidelity as the manager:
to these, others have added virtue, knowledge, discretion, equality
in age and it happens, and, as Cicero the calls it, comitas of Morum "a
the agreeability of the temperament." If I were to give my opinion on such
exhausted subject, I should connect to these other qualifications a
the certain equability or the parity of behaviour. A thick man contracts