Vauvenargues: If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of fri — Vauvenargues

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Vauvenargues

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