What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self
love.
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Meaning
This quote offers a cynical view that what people call friendship may sometimes be based on mutual benefit rather than pure affection. It questions whether many relationships are truly selfless.
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