Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
In plain words
Nobody would want a life with everything in it except friends.
Where these words come from
- 88% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII.1 (Bekker 1155a5), W.D. Ross translation, 1908 (public domain, MIT Classics Archive).
- Nicomachean Ethics
- c. 340 BCE · Athens · lecture notes on friendship, delivered at the Lyceum
