“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

— Aristotle , book Nicomachean Ethics

Book VIII, 1155a.5
Nicomachean Ethics
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics

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ἄνευ γὰρ φίλων οὐδεὶς ἕλοιτ᾽ ἂν ζῆν, ἔχων τὰ λοιπὰ ἀγαθὰ πάντα

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