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What does it mean?
Friendship does not require total agreement or constant to. Friends can have separate lives and other friends.
In plain terms
You do not need to agree with friends to be close.
What can you take from it?
True friendship allows for independence and difference.

Where it applies

  • personal relationships
  • social dynamics

Putting it to work

  • maintaining friendships
  • respecting boundaries

Questions to consider

  • What binds friendship more, agreement or care?
  • Can you be close to someone who disagrees with you?

Another view

It may undervalue shared experiences in bonding.

More from George Santayana

  1. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

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  2. Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

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  3. Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree,it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

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