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Do You Have Friends? Real Ones?

Practical Stoicism

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Do You Need Dear Confidants?

It is equally faulty to trust everyone and to trust no one, yet the former fault is, I should say, the more ingenious, while the latter, the more safe. Some men shrink into dark corners to such a degree that they see darkly by day. He who reposes should act and he who acts should take repose. Discuss the problem with nature. She will tell you that she has created both day and night. So then we are talking about friends, and I bet this one hits home for a great many of us. We all certainly have things we would perhaps not want to trust to the general public or to the deepest, darkest corners of the internet.

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