This document discusses the importance and nature of true friendship. It makes several points: - Friends accept each other's faults and shortcomings. - True friendship requires understanding each other as whole people, not just what meets the eye. - The easiest friendships are superficial; meaningful friendship requires understanding each other in different contexts and roles. - Solitude is worse than being alone if one does not have true friends to open up to. - To build strong friendships, we must value our friends for who they are rather than what they can do for us.

1. Kristine G. Vizcocho
BSHRM-IA
COMM101
"Friends are born not made"
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his
friend . “The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much
sleep”… no man is the whole of himself. His friends are the rest of him a friend to all is
friend to none friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies friend The easiest kind of
friendship for me is with ten thousand people a man cannot speak to his son, but as a
father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms where as a friend may
speak, as the case requires, and not as it shortest with the person. Those that want friends
to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts little do men perceive what
solitude is, If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friend
for their sakes rather than for our own When friends stop being frank and useful to each
other, the whole world loses some of its radiance It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in
every pursuit or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at
once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgment, which are rarely
combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a
sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a
shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you Friendship without
self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your
friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says very justly, 'Tell me whom you live
with, and I will tell you who you are.