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Many questions are raised about friendship—first, on the line of those who take in wider considerations and extend the term. For some hold that like is friend to like, whence the sayings: Mark how God ever brings like men together Hom. Od. 17.218 ; For jackdaw by the side of jackdaw . . .; Birds of a feather flock together. Sc. ἱζάνει, perches : an iambic verse quoted in full Aristot. Gtr. Mor. 1208b 9, and in the form κολοιὸν ποτὶ κολοιόν Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1155a 35, where the dialect suggests that it is from a Doric poet (unknown). And thief knows thief and wolf his fellow wolf.set a thief to catch a thief. The origin of the verse is unknown.
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And the natural philosophers even arrange the whole of nature in a system by assuming as a first principle that like goes to like, owing to which EmpedoclesMystic philosopher, man of science and statesman of Agrigentum, fl. 490 B.C. said that the dog sits on the tiling because it is most like him.Presumably, like in color; true of Greek dogs today. Empedocles does not appear to have gone on to infer protective mimicry.
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Some people then give this account of a friend; but others say that opposite is dear to opposite, since it is what is loved and desired that is dear to everybody, and the dry does not desire the dry but the wet (whence the sayings—Earth loveth rain,Quoted as from Euripides, Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1154a 34; the play is not known. and In all things change is sweet— Eur. Orest. 234. change being transition to the opposite), whereas like hates like, for Potter against potter has a grudge, Hes. WD 25 ('Two of a trade never agree'). and animals that live on the same food are hostile to one another.
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These opinions, therefore, are thus widely variant. One party thinks that the like is friend and the opposite foe— The less is rooted enemy to the more For ever, and begins the day of hate, Eur. Phoen. 539f. ἐχθρᾶς ἡμέρας = ἔχθρας, cf. δούλιον ἦμαρ = δουλεία, Paley.
