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15. What is a friend? A single soul hidden in two bodies (Aristotle).
16. I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for
their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and
my enemies for their good intellects. (O. Wilde).
17. I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the
fact that non of us can stand other people having the same faults
as overselves (O. Wilde).
18. I like persons better than principles (O. Wilde).
19. …to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not
think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His
virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as
sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music,
an actor of a part that has not been written for him (O.Wilde).

4.In groups, brainstorm 6 main categories that friends must agree on
(probably politics, religious beliefs, moral values) and place them in order of
importance. Explain your choice.

5.Use the following proverbs in situations of your own.

1.The best friends may part. 2.Friendship is not to be bought at a fair.
3.Be slow in choosing friends, slower in changing them. 4.A friend is
easier lost than found. 5.A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
6.A friend is never known till a man has need. 7.A friend is not so
soon gotten as lost. 8.Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt
with him. 9.When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. 10.Short
acquaintance brings repentance. 11.To those we love best, we say the
least.

6.Discuss the following extract. What is your opinion on this point?

From And More
by Andy Rooney

"… The biblical commandment to "Love Thy Neighbor" was
probably a poor translation of what must have originally been
"Respect Thy Neighbor". Love can't be called up on order…. The
only thing neighbors have in common to begin with is proximity, and
unless something more develops, that isn't reason enough to be best

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