Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-10
MAXIMS OF FRIENDSHIP.
BY DR.. Frank Crane.

J. Let us play awhile in the library
The subject of friendship has engaged the at
tention of thinkers in all ages. Many of their con-
clusions have come down to in proverbs.
From these sentences of condensed wisdom We
can catch many shrewd hint
For instance maxim found in various forms
In different Languages is: The way to make friends
that will last long is to be a long time making
them The Greeks had it: Do not make friends
quickly.
precept of Bias has aroused much discussion:
Love as if one day You will hate; hate if one day
you will love.
An offset to this is attributed to Caesar |
would rather die than mistrust always. And
Surgeons apothegm He who believes every
body will be bitten, but he who believes nobody
will be devoured.
Who is too much friend to himself is friend
to no one else is saying Of all lands. La Bruyere
puts it, Indulgence toward zones self and severity
toward others is and the same vice. And the
Latins The self-lover has no rival
That We prefer moderate but durable friend
ship to share in my tastes and ways, is expressed
by: Love me little, love me long.
And that if you love me you must love what
love, and share in my tastes and ways is expressed
by: Love me- love my dog.
In almost every Language find the equivalent
of: friend in need is friend. indeed.
Aristotle quotes Greek proverb: Who ceases
to be friend never
One friend is worth hundred relatives,
Fate gives relatives, We choose our own friends,
shows the superiority, in the common mind, OF
friendship kinshlD.
1t was Socrates who said: A friend is another
self. And Aristotle the like: friend is one soul
IN two DOdleS
In the Hava-mal of the Scandnavians it is said:
The tree dies stripped of bark and leaves; no
live without friends.
Even if friends advice offends you, write 1t
down, say the Spanards. And the Germans:
Freundes Stimme, Gottes Stfmme-a friends voice
is Gods voice. The French: Coup d'ami, coup
cheri-a friends blow (reproof) is a loving blow
And the Spanish again: No hay mejor espejo que ell
amigo viejo-an old friend is the best mirror.
That good lover should be good hater is
the basis of the proverb: A good enemy makes
good friend. This however, is denied by Senac de
Meilhan, who writes: Love springs from the heart;
hate from egotism.
Friends are sometimes hurt by ill-timed w.t.
hence Better lose joke than friend.
That friendship once broken is hard to mend
appears in the Spanish: Amigo reconciliado enc
migo doblado-a reconciled friends double
enemy.
To have no money dealings with personal
friends is taught in many wise saws He that lends
to his friends loses double The way to lose q
friend is to lend him money. The Russians say:
make an eternal enemy. The Turks: Eat and drink
with a friend, but do business with him.
Sincerity is the sacrement of friendship, say the
Arabs Also: A thousand friends is not enough
and one enemy is too many.
God save me from my friends! |
myself from my enemies is saying found every
dungeons of the Doges palace in Venice where the
victims of the Council of Ten we're immured
Di chi mi fido guarda mi DID,
Degil altri mi guardero TO-
Copyright. 1917 by Frank Crane)