We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
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