Refusal to believe that a friend has spoken ill of one

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Refusal to believe that a friend has spoken ill of one.

Society. · Other social relationships. · Friendship. · view the constellation · filed as P317

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Spanish ExemplaKeller.
general Alphabet No. 220

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Filed under Friendship.

1 finer motif beneath it

Refusal to believe that a friend will harm one. Alexander drinks cup said to have been poisoned by his friend

Filed beside it

Friends want to divide good and evil Friends avenge each other Dying hero sends greetings to friends Friends want their children to be friends too Defeated enemy turns true friend. (Cf. P311.1.)One friend dies shortly after the other Man wins wife for his friend Friendship possible only between equals Friends given the power of reading each other's secret thoughts Sworn brethren. Friends take an oath of lasting brotherhood Blood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their blood Milk-brotherhood. Friends bound in brotherhood through partaking of milk from the same woman Combat of disguised friends Friends offer to die for each other. (Bürgschaft.) Each falsely confesses crime so as to save the other. Neither guilty. Often combined with P325 Friend sacrifices his life for the other Man refuses to follow friend in wicked conduct

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