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and we ourselves also wish to be so: furthermore, that we seek a partner and helper for all our plans, these are rather the effects of true friendship than its ends and goals. Certainly, in that joining of souls which existed between David and Jonathan 1 Samuel 18:3, no other goal was observed than the one we have explained. Moreover, what is said in Luke 16:9, "Make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon," refers to nothing other than that we should learn to spend our money better than the common herd of men, namely upon the poor, who will commend us to God by their prayers; not upon the rich, whom we nevertheless usually cultivate more. Finally, as Cicero says in book 1 of De Legibus On Laws, where is that established friendship if the friend himself is not loved for his own sake, with one's whole heart, as it is said?

There are three primary effects of true friendship: Mutual love in God, Holy consensus of souls, and Mutual preservation and protection to the best of one's ability.

And love, indeed, is an affection of the heart by which we love one person above all others and follow him specially, wishing and desiring well for him. For it is said that to love Latin: diligere is, as it were, to choose Latin: deligere, and love Latin: dilectio is like delight Latin: delectio: because the one whom we love has been specially chosen and desired by us out of all others, for whom we would wish and pray for well-being more than for all other people. Therefore, love