Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
William HazlittRead
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
Interpretation
Old friendships can become unfulfilling and unpleasant over time.
This quote compares old friendships to repeatedly served cold meats, suggesting that, like stale food, these relationships lose their initial warmth and joy. As time goes on, what once provided comfort can become distasteful and leave one feeling unsettled, highlighting the natural evolution and sometimes decline of friendships as people change.
In practice
During a reunion speech, reflecting on how friendships have changed over the years.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.
Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'. 'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others.
I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone.
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