Those who can not conceive friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of…

Those who can not conceive friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways, nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever…