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clare_tan_wenhui's review
4.0
1. There are different kinds of friendship
2. Only good people can be true friends
3. We should choose our friends with care
4. Friends make you a better person
5. Make new friends, but keep the old
6. Friends are honest with each other
7. The reward of friendship is friendship itself
8. A friend never asks another friend to do something wrong
9. Friendships can change over time
10. Without friends, life is not worth living
Ok, bullet powerpoint style summary of the takeways aside, what is touching is how the prose plays out like having a heart to heart chat with a buddy who you know always has your best interests in mind, espousing the points above. Do treat yourself to befriending the author, it won't take more than one sitting.
2. Only good people can be true friends
3. We should choose our friends with care
4. Friends make you a better person
5. Make new friends, but keep the old
6. Friends are honest with each other
7. The reward of friendship is friendship itself
8. A friend never asks another friend to do something wrong
9. Friendships can change over time
10. Without friends, life is not worth living
Ok, bullet powerpoint style summary of the takeways aside, what is touching is how the prose plays out like having a heart to heart chat with a buddy who you know always has your best interests in mind, espousing the points above. Do treat yourself to befriending the author, it won't take more than one sitting.
catnip's review
4.0
"But if, as more commonly happens between friends, there is a change in character or interests or POLITICAL VIEWS - I'm speaking, as I said, of ordinary friendships, not those between the wise - we must take care that those who were once our friends don't become our enemies. For nothing is more disgraceful than to wage war against someone you once loved."
noodleboy667's review
5.0
This is one of my my top ten re-reads each year and it reminds me about the importance of friendship and helps recalibrate myself in terms of how I’m keeping I’m touch with friends. There’s so much in this short essay, and one of my favourite quotes that I keep coming back to is “Among friends, always listen to the counsel of your wise companions. True friends should give failthfil advice to each other, not only with frankness but with sternness if necessary. And that advice should be heeded.” Perhaps there’s no better time than the end of 2020 to read about how to choose friends, maintain great friendships, and figure out what true friendship really is.
ziddyyyy's review
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
2.75
Thought-provoking and comfortable, at times deeply insightful, voicing thoughts that I've had but have never been able to verbalise or systemize.