We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friendโs presence, is concerned with the common world.
Hannah ArendtPromises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Hannah ArendtLove, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.
Hannah Arendt