Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
Friendship has no survival value. Instead, it gives value to survival.
Good prisoners breed good jailers, apparently.
Through his brain was running a phrase of the mad philosopher "the transvaluation of values". In truth, he was less interested in staking a fortune than in beating Shorty. After all, he concluded, it wasn't the reward of the game but the playing of it that counted. Mind, and muscle, and stamina, and soul, were challenged in a contest with this Shorty, a man who had never opened the books, and who did not know grand opera from rag-time, nor an epic from a chilblain.
You are my precious thing, as long as you remain beneath me.
Discussion is meaningless if everyone has the same opinion.