One cannot be a friend to many people in the sense of having friendship of the perfect type with them, just as one cannot be in love with many people at once (for love is a sort of excess of feeling, and it is the nature of such only to be felt towards one person);
Baina ezin daiteke adiskide asko eduki adiskidetasun betearen arabera, gizaki askorekin batera maiteminduta egon ere ezin daitekeen bezala (gehiegikeria baitirudi, eta horrelako pasioa gizaki bakar batekikoa da berez);