Friendship may be less overwhelming than love, less visceral than blood ties, but we dispense with it at our peril.
If I were pressed to say why I loved him, wrote the essayist Montaigne of his friend, Etienne de la Boétie, I could only explain it by saying, because it was he; because it was I. A fortunate few of us will have a friend like La Boétie, cherished until death, but most friendships are more perishable.
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