{"id":706,"date":"2013-12-06T22:08:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T04:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=706"},"modified":"2015-02-03T00:02:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T06:02:07","slug":"loyalty-and-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/12\/06\/loyalty-and-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Loyalty and Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now the support and stay of that unswerving constancy, which we look for in friendship, is loyalty; for nothing is constant that is disloyal.\u00a0 Moreover, the right course is to choose for a friend one who is frank, sociable, and sympathetic&#8211;that is, one who is likely to be influenced by the same motives as yourself&#8211;since all these qualities conduce to loyalty; for it is impossible for a man to be loyal whose nature is full of twists and twinings; and, indeed, one who is untouched by the same influences as yourself is naturally unsympathetic cannot be either loyal or steadfast.\u00a0 To this observation should be added a requirement tending to produce that steadfastness, which I have been discussing for some time: a friend must neither take pleasure in bringing charges against you nor believe them when made by others.\u00a0 As so, the truth of what I said in the beginning is established: &#8216;Friendship cannot exist except among good men.&#8217; &#8221; Cicero, <em>On Friendship<\/em> XVIII. 65. Loeb Classical Library,\u00a0trans. William A. Falconer\u00a0(Cambridge, MA\u00a0 1923), 174-78.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now the support and stay of that unswerving constancy, which we look for in friendship, is loyalty; for nothing is constant that is disloyal.\u00a0 Moreover, the right course is to choose for a friend one who is frank, sociable, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/12\/06\/loyalty-and-friendship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicero","category-friendship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}