“We have already lived so long in this world that philosophers and moralists have doubted the existence of friendship, and poets and novelists have driven it into books and mutilated it so much that whoever has not seen it in person will in no way recognize it. In fact, is it really possible to call these connections, based on petty calculations of pride, selfishness or mutual benefits, the sacred name of friendship? We see people who live twenty, thirty years in good harmony, act together, never quarrel, trust one another, and we say, these are true friends...”