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laughs, or moves his head, the image in the mirror does the same. His 
very wishes and dislikes seem to be shared by the image in the mirror. 
So it is with friendship. 
Friends support one another. Pythias and Damon were intimate 
friends. One of them was sentenced to death by Dionysius, the tyrant. 
He asked permission to go home to set his affairs in order, his friend 
meanwhile acting as a hostage for him, prepared to die in his stead, did 
he not reappear at the appointed time. The hour for the execution struck, 
but the condemned man was not there. Yet his friend persisted that he 
would come, and so he did. The tvrant admired their mutual devotion and 
pardoned the one under sentence of death. 
Friends hold confidential intercourse with one another, they con¬ 
ceal nothing one from the other. When the door of a room is opened, you 
see all that is in it. So friends disclose to one another their inmost soul, 
and reveal the secrets of their heart. 
Friends are consequently candid and open-hearted to one another; 
they tell one another of their failings. Therefore a wise and holy man 
used to say: “I ohly count those as my friends who have the generosity 
to point out my faults to me.” 
“Friendship is the cement of two minds. 
As of one man the soul and body is; 
Of which one cannot sever but the other 
Suffers a needful separation.” 
■Chapman. 
