Title Of Friendship

Author Michel de Montaigne

Kind of Book Philosophy

How strongly I recommend it 9/10 

My Impressions Short, sweet, and well worth the read.

Practical Takeaways

• Give your friendships nourishment and attention

• Do whatever your best friend asks you to do - Blossius

Big Ideas

• True Friendship is very rare and several strokes of luck must happen for it to occur

• True Friendship cannot exist between Father and Children Because

it requires both parties to be able to share their deepest secrets and truths with the other. Also, true Friendship requires both parties to be able to admonish the other for wrongs they do (a child cannot scold his or her Father )

• Friendship is different from Romantic Love for a woman

Love for a woman is intense, stinging, but fickle

Friendship is moderate, warm, smooth, and steady.

• Friendship requires nourishment and attention

• In a true friendship the two souls intertwined

Surprising Facts

• There is evidence in this essay that Montaigne might have been homosexual. Either that or his male friend was his soul mate

• The ancients seemed to write of fellow male friends as soul mate speaking of their souls being intertwined, in much the way that modern people write about soul mates between a romantic partner