Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
Aelred of RievaulxCharity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
Aelred of RievaulxThe reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
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