And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for thoes who are friends. Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Your friends will attend to that.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
And this becomes men's nature in the end. A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.