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| Chapter XXXIV. Some other advantages of goodwill are here enumerated.
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Chapter XXXIV.
Some other advantages of goodwill are here
enumerated.
173. Good-will also is
wont to remove the sword of anger. It is also good-will that
makes the wounds of a friend to be better than the willing kisses of an
enemy.258
Goodwill again makes many to become
one. For if many are friends, they become one; in whom there is
but one spirit and one opinion.259
| 259 Cic. de
Off. I. 17, § 57. | We note, too,
that in friendship corrections are pleasing. They have their
sting, but they cause no pain. We are pierced by the words of
blame, but are delighted with the anxiety that good-will
shows.
174. To conclude, the same duties are not owed to
all. Nor is regard ever paid to persons, though the occasion and
the circumstances of the case are generally taken into consideration,
so that one may at times have to help a neighbour rather than
one’s brother. For Solomon also says: “Better
is a neighbour that is near than a brother far
off.”260
For this reason a man generally trusts
himself to the good-will of a friend rather than to the ties of
relationship with his brother. So far does good-will prevail that
it often goes beyond the pledges given by nature.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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