“We fear something before we hate it…” - Cyril Connolly
Perfect friendship is based on goodness.
Only the friendship of those who are good, and similar in their goodness, is perfect. Friendship of such lasts so long and goodness is an enduring quality. Friendship of this kind is permanent, reasonably enough; because there are attributes that friends ought to possess. Such friendships are rare, because those of this kind are few. And as the saying goes, you cannot get to know each other until you have eaten the proverbial quantity of salt together.
Nor can we accept another, until each has proved to the other that we are worthy of love, and so won the trust.
Aristotle: The Nichomachean Ethics
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