لا تكسب أصدقاءك بالمجاملات الجوفاء، بل بإهدائهم علامات حبٍّ عاقلة وذات معنى.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”Socrates — Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study (1967)