Archive for June 22nd, 2006
Friends, Close Friends, and the Exchange of Advice-Ibn Hazm
120. Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.
121. Criticizing a friend is like melting an ingot: it will either become refined or it will disappear.122. A friend who conceals a secret which concerns you is more disloyal towards you than one who tells [...]