We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us. — Aristotle
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
In the original Greek
ἐρωτηθεὶς πῶς ἂν τοῖς φίλοις προσφεροίμεθα, ἔφη, "ὡς ἂν εὐξαίμεθα αὐτοὺς ἡμῖν προσφέρεσθαι."
Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius · 240
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Aristotle. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 21.
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Aristotle. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 21.