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Friendship

According to Voltaire, friendship “is a tacit contract between two sensitive and virtuous people.”

He stated categorically that friendship can only exist between good people. This statement may seem very generic and of little influence or importance, but let me explain how I do it in my three-day retreat, the reflections he makes regarding other types of relationships so that you can distinguish friendship from what is not friendship. I hope it is useful to you and I look forward to your comments.

Wicked people only have accomplices.

Interested people engage with you as partners.

Political people relate to you as a supporter.

Royal people have Servitude. You become a servant of the Queen of the Family's River. Of course, this can happen with people who don't have the rank or wealth of the King Me, but they have the attitude and the behavior. And they treat you like a servant.

That's why Voltaire ended by saying that only good people have friends.

There is another great philosopher who spoke about friendship and I would like to quote him specifically:

Aristotle indicates that the term friendship has different meanings: one is defined by pleasure, another by utility and the third, by virtue.

For pleasure: It is based on the pleasure that can be received from the other. It occurs especially among young people.

By utility: They feel friendship to the extent that each receives a benefit from each other. The friend is useful and a benefit is received.

By virtue: It is true friendship, genuine friendship; it is based on good; it does not demand anything external from the friend, because the feeling is based on the desire for good for the friend, for the sake of the friend himself. It occurs in men who do not change their minds and whose character is stable.

Ultimately, only true friends can speak with complete confidence to share sorrows and joys without fear of betrayal.

Thank you for reading me, I'll wait for you in my next article
– Dr Roch