self friendship, n.All

Self-friendship (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the first real progress: a man who has become a friend to himself can never be alone, and is a friend to all mankind.

Self-friendship (n.) needs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a self divided in two: the horse is simply himself to himself and so not his own friend, nor is a child until choice arrives and mind falls out with appetite.

Self-friendship (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠possible only when the soul is one: "my soul and his are one", we say of a great friend — and a man is his own friend when reason and passions agree; the bad man, always at strife with himself, repents and reviles himself soon after his pleasure.