{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw50.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw50.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw50.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nA friend is a second self and a third eye.\nA true man is he who remembers his friend when he is absent, when he is in distress, and when he dies.\nA friend is known only in adversity.\nIf your friend is sweet, do not eat him up.\nIf you would keep a friend, do not lend him money nor borrow from him.\nKeep to your old friends\u2014your new friends will not be so constant.\nYou may find in a friend a brother who was not born of your mother.\nThe noblest man is he whose friendship may be easily obtained, and whose enmity can be incurred only with difficulty.\nHe is a weak man who can make no friends, and still weaker is he who loses them.\nWhen my vine was laden with grapes, my friends\nwere many; when the grapes were finished, my friends disappeared.\nFriendship may come down by inheritance from ancestors, and so may hatred.\nNothing makes us feel so lonely as solitude, and nothing makes us so cheerful as freedom from evil companions.\nWithout human companions, Paradise itself would be an undesirable place to live in.\nA man's character is judged by the character of his companions.\nSmoke is no less an evidence of fire than that a man's character is that of the character of his associates.\nHe who associates with a suspected person will himself be suspected.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Friends, Companions","type":"page"}