“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
