Émile Chartier Quote

Each one gave the other the only assistance one man can expect from another: that his friend support him and ask only that he remain himself. It is no great accomplishment to take people as they are, and we must always do so eventually, but to wish them to be as they are, that is a genuine love.


Poets. - Alain On Happiness (1973)


Each one gave the other the only assistance one man can expect from another: that his friend support him and ask only that he remain himself. It is...

Each one gave the other the only assistance one man can expect from another: that his friend support him and ask only that he remain himself. It is...

Each one gave the other the only assistance one man can expect from another: that his friend support him and ask only that he remain himself. It is...

Each one gave the other the only assistance one man can expect from another: that his friend support him and ask only that he remain himself. It is...