Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust. Friendships are based on those things, and you seal it with a kiss.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.