Enquiry is rarely solitary. These passages concern friendship, dialogue, hospitality, and the understanding that grows between people who think together.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
He who sees Me in all, and all in Me, is never lost to Me.
Hatreds never cease by hatred in this world; by love alone they cease.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
We are not born for ourselves alone.
The man of virtue is not left to stand alone.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
We are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids.
Associate with those who will make a better man of you.
No man is an island, entire of itself.
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
I am a man; I consider nothing that is human alien to me.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
