Proverb about friendship as a guide to moral choice

Most often proverbs and sayings are written on topics that are most intertwined with the daily realities of man regardless of his cultural affiliation.

Relevance at all times

For example, the proverb about friendship "An old friend is better than the new two" is applicable to the life of almost every person who does not shun socium and at least occasionally contacts his comrades. A person understands when a noisy company can and should be exchanged for a best friend, and when it is better to go independently to the place of hangout of strangers to "draw" new acquaintances. This proverb about friendship does not tell us that the mass of potential interesting acquaintances should always be neglected, if the choice is between them and an old friend. If you always follow this line of behavior, you can not only not make new friends, but also become an unseen introvert and lose even old comrades. Winged sayings teach us how best to behave in individual situations, but rarely apply to every life choice.

In friendship there is no place for selfishness

Such a proverb about friendship and mutual assistance as the famous "One for All and All for One", which came into use after the cult masterpiece of the national cinema about the three musketeers, teaches us to stand behind friends with a mountain and expect that they will do the same. In life, however, this statement often misfires. Friendship is often "one-sided", when one person is ready to give everything that he has, so long as his friend lives well. The second, at the same time, accepts any help without resentment , and takes it for granted, but does not give anything away. Such egoists do not know how to be friends, and more often they lose friends faster than girls who are hairpins and invisible. On this occasion, there is another very good proverb about friendship: "Friends are known in trouble". Its variation can also be considered as "There are pies - there are also cronies, there are no pies - no friends". This is not only friendship, but also love. Someone agrees to give their feelings and respect only because they like a person. Someone believes that this is only relevant if there are material benefits.

Learn to make friends from the young

Such a proverb about friendship for children as, for example, "Do not have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends", can teach kids to appreciate people first and not money. However, it will work only if before that the child is explained why friends are needed, why they are more important than money. Here an adult can face a very logical counter-argument, which will sound like this: "But I can live without people, but I can not live without money, because then I will not have anything to buy." Here you can give examples of disinterested friendly assistance, but this is unlikely to work for the child. It should first of all make a logical emphasis on the fact that the world's richest man, suffering from loneliness, can not feel happy. Material values, which are cultivated in modern cinema, contemporary literature and even musical production, create in the younger generation a misconception about the definition of happiness. True friends are valued not because they can lend you a ruble, but because next to them you do not even have to worry about whether you have this ruble.

Friend, whether the enemy - time will tell

Very interesting is the following proverb about friendship: "A clever enemy is better than a stupid friend." It is interesting first of all for its duality and incomprehensibility. On the one hand, it is not at all clear how an enemy can be better than a friend. However, it is extremely simple to explain: the enemy is a single-valued concept. He wants you only evil, and all his actions towards you will either be clearly destructive, or aimed at at least somehow worsen your existence. A foolish friend or a friend who can afford to mix friendly feelings with hatred can at any moment throw out such a feint that you will not even know how to react. A friend can strike in the back unexpectedly, and the enemy is almost expected. The best friend can become the most dangerous enemy, because he knows about you as much as you let him know. Only you can blame yourself, and therefore, to assess the scale of the tragedy will be much more difficult than in the case of a single enemy.

Huge friendship of nations: maybe or not?

In such a difficult time economically and politically, certain sayings proclaiming to humanity to be friends with nations begin to be in demand. For example, such a proverb about the friendship of peoples as "The language of friendship does not need a translation" is well illustrated by slightly forced love stories from the cinema where two people love each other without understanding a word. There is an opinion that "the friendship of peoples is brighter than the sun", but the current events described by the media tell us that this friendship is almost impossible. Ironically, such a friendship, being the most ambitious, is also the most flimsy. In an attempt to protect their national pride, people fall ill with unhealthy patriotism and ruin the friendship of the peoples in just a few weeks. The soil for this can be anything: politics, religion, active propaganda. Any reason will be very ambiguous. People should work on their own mentality and become more tolerant of ambiguous statements, and also understand that the friendship of peoples will make them only stronger.