"If you are a good person, you stand in the same relation to your friend as to yourself, since a friend is another self. You value your friend's existence in the same way as you value your own, or almost." - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Via How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well by Susan Suavé Meyer
Something about this passage, a sentiment expressed thousands of years ago in a place and time so different than now yet speaking to the universality of human experience is just overwhelmingly heartwarming. It brings a tear to my eye.
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