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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato
“I have a passion for friends; and I would rather have a good friend than the best cock or quail in the world”
Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Lysis (Stephanus 211e), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates confesses his lifelong desire before questioning Menexenus about what a friend is, adding that he would prefer a real friend to all the gold of Darius.
Citation: "I have a passion for friends; and I would rather have a good friend than the best cock or quail in the world" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Lysis (Stephanus 211e), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q6)
