Think of a friend as loyal, and you make them so.
Where this comes from
Seneca wrote this to Lucilius nearly 2,000 years ago, in a letter about choosing friends with care and then trusting them all the way. Treat a friend as someone you can count on, he said, and you help them become one.
How you could say it to a five-year-old
“You lent Sam your best car. Look how carefully he’s holding it.”
Seneca, Letters 3.3. We put these lines into plain English ourselves, staying close to the original and to public-domain translations.
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