Ireland, _Books for General Readers_.
[2] It is much to be desired that some one would publish a selection from
the works of Seneca.
CHAPTER V.
THE BLESSING OF FRIENDS.
"They seem to take away the sun from the world who withdraw friendship
from life; for we have received nothing better from the Immortal Gods,
nothing more delightful."--CICERO.
Most of those who have written in praise of books have thought they could
say nothing more conclusive than to compare them to friends.
"All men," said Socrates, "have their different objects of
ambition--horses, dogs, money, honor, as the case may be; but for his own
part he would rather have a good friend than all these put together." And
again, men know "the number of their other possessions, although they
might be very numerous, but of their friends, though but few, they were
not only ignorant of the number, but even when they attempted to reckon it
to such as asked them, they set aside again some that they had previously
counted among their friends; so little did they allow their friends to
occupy their thoughts.
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