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On being able to trust friends not to ask of us things against the nature of friendship:
"If I were asked: 'If your will told you to kill your daughter, would you kill her?', and should answer, Yes. For that would be no evidence of my readiness to do the deed, because i have no doubts about my will, and just as little about the will of such a friend."
(On Friendship, p.98 of the 1978 Penguin edition)
— Jun 10, 2018 01:43AM
"If I were asked: 'If your will told you to kill your daughter, would you kill her?', and should answer, Yes. For that would be no evidence of my readiness to do the deed, because i have no doubts about my will, and just as little about the will of such a friend."
(On Friendship, p.98 of the 1978 Penguin edition)
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