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DERE that enmity has its values \u200b\u200b(many enemies, much honor!), there is no doubt that the friendship in the course of history in all cultures and has always received special attention.
This is not only by the simple people, living it as the natural result of socialization, a characteristic that distinguishes us from other animals (humans are social animals, affemava
Aristotle), but, well poets, writers, playwrights, to writers, musicians and everything else working with words, or free verse, recited or sung, that trio of heart, pain, love (rightly come to terms in this theme ) have
base their works, what it is, even by philosophers, you know, by constitution, does not want things pleasant, and
explanatory in this respect is the most famous work on the subject, the
Lelio on friendship of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
friendship, time and place, it is configured in multiple ways, so as to be characterized by different elements, depending also on the context in which it thrives. Some of these are not always shared in cultures
distant (in time and in space) that is enough to remember the friendly relationship typical of classical Greece, expressed very well by
Aristocles, most famous as Plato in his Symposium
with overtly sexual characteristics: certainly not proposing a dynamic very "friendly" in our society (western & contemporary).
For the ancient Romans was identified with the sense of
Sodalitas , namely the "solidarity" which distinguishes the members of a group of people united by a common purpose
. Typically, in this sense, was the relationship that characterized the legionnaires r
Oman, translated with the sense of "camaraderie" (ie feeling towards the "dormitory" which divides the appointed place to sleep and to whom we owe have confidence in its watch and care to watch her) that distinguishes those who still divide "bread & death."
Besides, the bread is an essential element of friendship: sharing bread, a prototype of the food is a little 'how to share your life, and what are the "companions" if not with the friends with whom you -divide the table (
cum + panis ), and there was someone
or around a Mensa invited his companions to love ourselves and set up a memorial
with which all his followers, mindful of that Table, they felt friends. What's more, brothers.
If relations human empathy should prevail (ie, "feel inside" the other, putting themselves in the shoes of the other), in friendship must prevail sim-pathy (ie, "perceive" the other, ie feel together, try the same emotions). That is why the betrayal of his friend is often experienced more strongly in the betrayal of a loved one. In some languages \u200b\u200b(like English and German), there is even a consideration for the Italian phrase "I love you" (a phrase certainly fits with two friends) who will still be translated as "I love you" (which in turn is very strong in Italian, having
ACQUIRED, in our language, a sexual connotation of the mold and then
little suited to the context).
by the Friends expect to be understood, understood, almost intuitively, to the point that he could say that true friends are like birds: they meet on the fly.
is why those who finds a friend finds a treasure. Hence: who loses a friend loses a treasure. And then: who finds a friend finds a treasure!