| 1. Sappho, Fragments, 47 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •friendship, symmetry within Found in books: Graver (2007) 185 |
| 2. Sappho, Fragments, 47 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •friendship, symmetry within Found in books: Graver (2007) 185 |
3. Cicero, On The Ends of Good And Evil, 3.70 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •friendship, symmetry within Found in books: Graver (2007) 181| 3.70. Amicitiam autem adhibendam esse censent, quia sit ex eo genere, quae prosunt. quamquam autem in amicitia alii dicant aeque caram esse sapienti rationem amici ac suam, alii autem sibi cuique cariorem suam, tamen hi quoque posteriores fatentur alienum esse a iustitia, ad quam nati esse videamur, detrahere quid de aliquo, quod sibi adsumat. minime vero probatur huic disciplinae, de qua loquor, aut iustitiam aut amicitiam propter utilitates adscisci aut probari. eaedem enim utilitates poterunt eas labefactare atque pervertere. etenim nec iustitia nec amicitia iustitia nec amicitia Mdv. iusticie nec amicicie esse omnino poterunt, poterunt esse omnino BE nisi ipsae per se expetuntur. expetantur V | 3.70. "They recommend the cultivation of friendship, classing it among 'things beneficial.' In friendship some profess that the Wise Man will hold his friends' interests as dear as his own, while others say that a man's own interests must necessarily be dearer to him; at the same time the latter admit that to enrich oneself by another's loss is an action repugt to that justice towards which we seem to possess a natural propensity. But the school I am discussing emphatically rejects the view that we adopt or approve either justice or friendship for the sake of their utility. For if it were so, the same claims of utility would be able to undermine and overthrow them. In fact the very existence of both justice and friendship will be impossible if they are not desired for their own sake. |
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4. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.130 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •friendship, symmetry within Found in books: Graver (2007) 185 | 7.130. Their definition of love is an effort toward friendliness due to visible beauty appearing, its sole end being friendship, not bodily enjoyment. At all events, they allege that Thrasonides, although he had his mistress in his power, abstained from her because she hated him. By which it is shown, they think, that love depends upon regard, as Chrysippus says in his treatise of Love, and is not sent by the gods. And beauty they describe as the bloom or flower of virtue.of the three kinds of life, the contemplative, the practical, and the rational, they declare that we ought to choose the last, for that a rational being is expressly produced by nature for contemplation and for action. They tell us that the wise man will for reasonable cause make his own exit from life, on his country's behalf or for the sake of his friends, or if he suffer intolerable pain, mutilation, or incurable disease. |
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| 5. Stobaeus, Eclogues, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graver (2007) 181 |
