The Detroit times., 1917-04-09
Maxims of Friendship-L
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
copyright 1915. by Frank Craue)
Let us play awhile in the library.

The subject of friendship has engaged
the attention of thinkers in all ages.
Many of their conclusions have come
down to Us in proverbs.
FROM these sentences of condensed
wisdom we can catch many a shrewd
hint.
For instance, a maxim found in vari-
Gus forms in different languages is: The
way TO make friends that will last long
is to be long time making them. The
Greeks had it: Do not make friends
quickly.
A precept of Bias has aroused much
discussion: Love as if one day you will
hate; hate as if one day you will love.
An offset to this is attributed to Cae-
sar; | would rather die once than mis-
trust always. And Surgeons apothegm
was; He who believes everybody will be
bitten, out he who believes nobody will
be devoured
Who is too muck friend to himself
is frind to no one else is saying
OF all lands. La Bruyere puts it. I'm
diligence toward ones self and severity
toward others is one and the same vice.
And the Latins: The self-lover has no
rival
That we prefer a moderate but dur
able friendship to a share in my tastes
and ways, is expressed by: Love me 1T
tie; love me long.
And that II 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 we find thu
equivalent Of: A friend in need ia n
friend indeed.
Aristotle quotes Greek proverb:
Who ceases to be a friend never YVES
one.
One friend is worth a hundred reia-
tives. or: Fate gives Us relatives, we
choose our own friends, shows the SUI
periority, in the common mind, of friend
ship over hnship.
II was Socrates who said: A friend Ia
another self. And Aristotle the like: A
friend is one soul in two bodies.
In the Hava-mal Of the Scsndinavians
it is said: The tree dies stripped Of
bark and leaves; so no man can live
without friends.
Even if friends advice offends you,
write il down, say the Spaniards. And
the Germans Freundes Stimme, Gottes
Stimme-s friends voice is Gods voicsA
The French: Coup DAM, coup cheri-A
friends blow (reproof) is 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 a good
hater is the basis Of the proverb: A
good enemy makes a good friend. This,
however is denied by Senac de Meilhan.
who writes: Love springs from tbs
heart; hate from egotism.
Friends are sometimes hurt by m
timed wit, hence: Better lose a joke
than friend.
That friendship once broken is hard b
mend appears in the Spanish: Amigo
reconciEado, enemigo doblado--a recon-
ciled friends double enemy
To have no money dealings with per-
sonal friends is taught in many wise
saws: He that lends to his friend loses
double. The way to lose friend 10 TO
lend him money. The Russians say:
Refuse to lend, and make an enemy;
lend, and make an eternal enemy. The
Turks: Eat and drink with friend,
but do no business with him.
Sincerity is the sacrament Of friend
ship, say the Arabs. Also: A thousand
friends is not enough, and one enemy In
too many. A.,
God save me from my friends can
save myself from my enemies, is a say
ing found everywhere. 1t was inscribed
on the walls of one Of the dungeons Of
the Doge's palace in Venice, where the
victims of the Council of Ten were inn
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