Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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2007-01-13 23:06:39 · 13 answers · asked by vicky 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Friends agree, like a business deal,voluntarily to be together and get along and hang out.
Love,is the most miserable state to enter into with another, and is between one who loves the least (hence is the tyrant) with one who loves the most (hence the slave).
2007-01-13 23:12:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This quotation by Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) means that in any relationship there is a lover and a lovee. There is always one that loves more than the other and is the slave and the lovee is the tyrant who holds their love a little apart and has the whip hand.
Friendship, on the other hand, is a meeting based on common interests and regard without the emotion of love and therefore usually has no power struggle going on.
2007-01-13 23:11:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
whoever wrote this liked being complicated, sounds like it could be an English guy from the 1700's to 1800's. I believe he means friendship is simple and 2 equally interested people choose to be friends, one not bearing more of the feelings than the other, you know the expression "I just want to be friends" is a romance killer statement. Love between a couple, on the other hand, usually has 1 party more interested than the other, and the one in the relationship that is determined to make it is trying to please the "tyrant" in the relationship. think it oversimplifies most relationships but the person who said it is probably concerned about controlling people, or being controlled so makes this jaded statement to sum up his feelings. I also thought the person is a man due to the way the wording is laid out. Men can be extremely uncomfortable with things like love and it may satisfy The part of him that wants to be rational to make such cold and calculating way of summing up a messy emotion, love
2007-01-13 23:19:52 · answer #3 · answered by magpie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The answer is in the question... "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals"... I think its way more sexy when two people are on completely different sides of the spectrum.. The unknown is a turn on...
2007-01-13 23:11:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably friendship breeds best between equals because there is a maximum of mutual appreciation.
This does not mean friends must mirror one another. Actually, similarity beyond shared values, and perhaps interests, can diminish stimulation and expansion to new realms and understanding.
2007-01-13 23:23:14 · answer #5 · answered by Arnoux 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goldsmith, Oliver
Mr. Honeywood, in The Good Natur’d Man
Categories: friendship and love; love
2007-01-14 00:06:26 · answer #6 · answered by BUTTERFLY 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goldsmith, Oliver
Mr. Honeywood, in The Good Natur’d Man
2007-01-13 23:08:54 · answer #7 · answered by just browsin 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Friendship is between two people who share similar interests, but Love is between two people who share nothing in common, but the feeling of love.
2007-01-13 23:10:30 · answer #8 · answered by yitogwa 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
two people who meet & become friends not based on common interest, but share the same insight on life & love who deal with people who are bossy & demanding because of power & those who do what you tell them, do things because they have to because lack of power.
2007-01-13 23:14:45 · answer #9 · answered by jimineejavaa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what that says is freindship is an unnplanned,unaware buying of one anothers mind and self between two human beings
2007-01-13 23:12:27 · answer #10 · answered by streetz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋