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801. That friendship is called intimacy which submitteth without resenting to all the freedoms taken by the beloved one.

802. To be free and easy with each other, that is the heart of true friendship : and it is the part of worthy men never to resent such familiarities.

803. Of what avail is friendship that is longstanding if it acquiesceth not in the liberties taken in its name?

804. When friends rely on their intimacy and do a thing without leave, the warm-hearted will think of their love and will take it in good part.

805. When friends do a thing that paineth thee, account thou it as much to their feeling of perfect oneness with thee as to their ignorance. Rh