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Ancient contents - Book II · Contents.II.32-36–Contents.II.37-41
Ancient Greek
p. 173432-36
32. Ὅτι κάλλιστον ἡ φιλία τῶν ἀγαθῶν.
33. Ὅτι ἡ ὁμοιότης τῶν τρόπων φιλίαν ἀπεργάζεται.
34. Ὅτι χρὴ ἐν ταῖς δυστυχίαις καὶ τοῖς κινδύνοις μὴ περιορᾶν τοὺς φίλους.
35. Ὅτι οὐ χρὴ συναδικεῖν τοῖς φίλοις.
36. Περὶ γνησίων καὶ ἀβεβαίων φίλων.
37-41
37. Ὅτι χρὴ ταχείας ποιεῖσθαι τὰς πρὸς τοὺς φίλους διαλλαγάς, τὰ ἁμαρτήματα αὐτῶν ῥᾷον φέροντας μετὰ τῆς ἀμνηστίας.
38. Ὅτι ἐν ταῖς ἀτυχίαις τοὺς γνησίους τῶν φίλων διαγινώσκομεν.
39. Φιλικὰ παραγγέλματα.
40. Περὶ ἔχθρας καὶ τοῦ ὁποῖον τινα χρὴ εἶναι πρὸς τοὺς ἐχθρούς.
41. Περὶ τοῦ πῶς ἐστιν ἀπ᾽ ἐχθρῶν ὠφεληθῆναι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Ancient contents - Book II
p. 173532-36 · Friendship and its limits
32. That friendship among good people is a most beautiful thing.
33. That similarity of character produces friendship.
34. That one should not neglect friends in misfortune and danger.
35. That one should not join friends in wrongdoing.
36. On true and unreliable friends.2100
37-41 · Reconciliation, true friends, and enemies
37. That one should be quick to reconcile with friends, bearing their faults more easily by forgetting past wrongs.
38. That in misfortune we recognize which of our friends are true.
39. Precepts on friendship.
40. On enmity and how one should behave toward enemies.
41. On how one can benefit from enemies.2101
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