"Look at yourself,
which friends will you choose ...
because when you find yourself in difficulties,
you will run to them!!!”
When you choose a friend..
let him be in your life as a "brother",
because you will run to him!!!"
Friendship as the result of a healthy soul is sacred,
pure, whole, faithful, stable, honest, courageous, true, eternal. Friendship is
a virtue, because it is founded on ethics and good conduct.
Friendship as a virtue, is attracted by the similar,
and rests on related virtues. It is a bond of two similar souls.
It is the result of a prudent soul and connects
friends with deep love.
Friendship has a stable and uncompromising ethic.
Friendship is a kind of moral pleasure that pleases the soul. Friendship always
endures, sympathizing and supporting. Aristotle has said: “Friendship is a soul
that dwells in two bodies.”
Friendship is stronger than kinship love, because
kinship love is a work of necessity, but friendship is based on the will.
Friendship dictates reverence for the sacred things of friends, purity in
behavior, integrity in morals, faith in character, stability in decisions,
sincerity in words, courage in saying what is right and beneficial and in
speaking the truth.
Friendship is the support for the happiness of two
good people, because only between good people can true friendship develop.
Plato says: “Friendship is unity in favor of the good and just; the will for a
common way of life, the same way of thinking and acting, a life with harmony
and good mood so that there is unity, companionship in both pleasant and
unpleasant things.”
There are three types of friendship; that which is
based on virtue, that which is founded on interest, and that which exists out
of habit. However, friendship for the sake of virtue is excellent, because it
is strengthened by the virtue of love....
(Excerpt from “TO GNOTHI SAVTON. Texts of
self-knowledge” by Saint Nektarios of Pentapolis, where he refers to and speaks
about the importance of friendship....)
