The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-04-09
MaXims of Friendship.
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. By Frank Craue)

Let Us play awhile In the library.
Lhe 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 a long time making them. The
Greeks had il: Do not make friends
quickly.
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, but he who believes nobody will
be devoured
Who Is too much a friend to himself
Is frind to no one else is a saying
of all lands. La Bruyere puts it: "ln-
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 lit
tie 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 VIC find the
equivalent Of: A friend in need is
friend indeed
Aristotle quotes Greek proverb:
Who ceases to be friend never was
one.
One friend is worth a hundred rela-
tivcS. or; Fate gives US relatives. VIC
choose our own friends, shows the SUI
periority, in the common mind, Of friend
ship over kinship.
II was Socrates who said A friend is
another self. And Aristotle the like: A
friend is one soul in two bodies
In the Hava-mal Of the Scandinavians
it is said The tree dies stripped Of
bark and leaves; so no man can live
without friends.
Even if friends advice ofTends you.
asri'-'-' A..s.v ~, - Srds And
the Germans: Freundes%Stimme, Gottes
Stimme-a friends voice is Gods voice
The French: Coup d'ami, coup cheri-a
friends blow (reprooO is a loving blow.
And The Spanish again No hay mejor
espejo que 81 amigo viejo-an old friend
is the best mirror.
That a good lover should be a good
hater is the basis Of the proverb: A
good enemy makes good friend This
however is denied 10y Senac de Meilhan,
who writes: Love springs from the
heart hate from egotism.
Friends are sometimes hurt by i'll
timed wit, hence: Better lose joke
than a friend.
That friendship once broken is hard to
mend appears in the Spanish: Amigo
reconciiado, enemigo doblado-a recon-
ciled friends a 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 a friend is 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 a 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 is
too many.
God save me from my friends! can
save myself from my enemies, is a say
ing found everywhere. II was inscribed
on the walls Of one Of the dungeons of
the Doges palace in Venice, where the
victims Of the Council of Ten we're inn
INJURED:
/ 10, an. mi fFo ruurda mi pio!
HtRli aItfI ulI EUarderU to.