“ To contract ties of Friendship with any one, is to contract Friendship with his virtue. There ought not to be any other motive in Friendship. ”
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). copy citation
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
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| Source | A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers |
| Topic | virtue motive |
| Date | 1849 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4232/4232-h/4232-h.htm |
Context
“They do not charm us with their eyes, But they transfix with their advice; No partial sympathy they feel, With private woe or private weal, But with the universe joy and sigh, Whose knowledge is their sympathy.
Confucius said: To contract ties of Friendship with any one, is to contract Friendship with his virtue. There ought not to be any other motive in Friendship. I have a Friend who wishes me to see that to be right which I know to be wrong. But if Friendship is to rob me of my eyes, if it is to darken the day, I will have none of it. It should be expansive and inconceivably liberalizing in its effects.” source
Confucius said: To contract ties of Friendship with any one, is to contract Friendship with his virtue. There ought not to be any other motive in Friendship. I have a Friend who wishes me to see that to be right which I know to be wrong. But if Friendship is to rob me of my eyes, if it is to darken the day, I will have none of it. It should be expansive and inconceivably liberalizing in its effects.” source
