Aristotle Sparkle's Friendship University · 8:54pm Mar 7th, 2021
More from time traveling pegasister Mary Renault, describing Aristotle's school at Mieza, where Alexander the Great studied as a young man:
The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the good life, and beautiful in itself. Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist. He described the degrees of friendship, up from the self-seeking to the pure, when good is willed to the friend for the friend’s own sake. Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.
Renault, Mary. The Novels of Alexander the Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games . Open Road Media.
Reading novels is a grand thing when they show us something new, but also when they show us something familiar in a new place.
