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Ancient Greek Wisdom

Fellowship For Aristotle & Tolkien

Andy Owen explains what Aristotle was tolkien about.

“Without friends no one would want to live, even if they had all other worldly things.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII

In my early twenties a close friend committed suicide. He was a beautiful soul and I will always question myself as to what, as his friend, I should have done to help him. As Henry James advised; “Never say you know the last word about any human heart.” Maybe there was nothing, maybe there was something.

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