ON FRIENDSHIP

Go out in search for those in whom you find the capacity to censure you and if necessary make you weep without flinching when you go wrong, and of leading you into the good path; make friendship with such men.

Misfortune has its use in that it serves as a yard stick for you to spread out and measure the constancy of friends and relatives.

'Spread out,' so that the defect if any in the cloth or the friend may be disclosed.

Do not entertain thoughts, which must lead to the shrinking of enthusiasm. Do not take friends who instead of giving you strength weaken you in difficult situations.

It is a gain by itself if one gets away from the friendship of fools.

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