Dear Friends,
Thank you for reading and listening this week! Below is a short contemplation from Cicero on friendship and links to this week’s videos and meditations.
Until next week, be wise and be well!
📿 The Virtue of Friendship
This week’s contemplation comes from the Roman statesman Cicero. In his Treatise on Friendship, Cicero wrote,
Let me repeat then, ‘the clear indication of virtue, to which a mind of like character is naturally attracted, is the beginning of friendship.’ When that is the case the rise of affection is a necessity. For what can be more irrational than to take delight in many objects incapable of response, such as office, fame, splendid buildings, and personal decoration, and yet to take little or none in a sentient being endowed with virtue, which has the faculty of loving or, if I may use the expression, loving back? For nothing is really more delightful than a return of affection, and the mutual interchange of kind feeling and good offices. And if we add, as we may fairly do, that nothing so powerfully attracts and draws one thing to itself as likeness does to friendship, it will at once be admitted to be true that the good love the good and attach them to themselves as though they were united by blood and nature. […]
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Contemplation Questions (Pick one or create your own!):
How does “the virtue of friendship” add value to our lives?
What does it mean to be a good friend?
This Week’s Videos…
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This Week’s Meditations…
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Thank you for reading/listening this week; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W.
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