Friendship

Epicurus, the Athenian philosopher, included friendship among life’s necessities. "Only beasts dine alone," he is said to have exclaimed.  Friends provide amusement, information, and a bracing and beautiful feeling of human connection. "Without friends," says Joseph Epstein, former editor of the American Scholar, "we are all lost." But friends can also be "an immense complication, …

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