Summary of Friendship by Francis Bacon

Summary of “Of Friendship” By Francis Bacon

The story of “Of Friendship” begins with the words of Aristotle, “Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a God”. It means the person who believes that he is happy alone is either a wild beast or god. It is true that we need friends to spend life. 

There is a Latin Saying, ” Magna Civitas, Magna Solitudo” which means ( A Great town is a great Solitude.). 

 Bacon says, there are three fruits of friendship. First principle, there are diseases in bodies which Doctors can be cure by opening them like lungs, liver and mind. But no doctor in the world can cure your heart pain. Only a true friends can open your heart and cure its pain.

 It is strange thing that Great Kings have also tasted the fruit of friendship. The First fruit of friendship is sharing our heart feelings with our friends as it gives happiness and cure our pain.

  The second fruit of friendship is giving advice. Sometimes we need advise in life. Bacon says, you also need those types of friend who aren’t capable to advise you.

These friends are like that stone which you can rub and brighten your thoughts. 

Bacon tells third fruit of friendship by giving an example of pomegranate. The benefits of friendship are equal to the number of seeds in pomegranate. There are many things in life which we can’t do alone and to do that we needs friends.

 The greatest happiness of sports is playing it with friends. We all love playing sports like cricket and football but real happiness and fun comes when we play it with our friends.

 The memories we make with our friends are the ones which we never forget in life. Friends are important part of life so you should always have friends who can guide you and support you in hard time.