Years ago a good friend had this quote hung up on the wall by her desk: "ἔστι ... ὁ φίλος ἄλλος αὐτός" (A friend is another self), which I loved: you experience

Years ago a good friend had this quote hung up on the wall by her desk: "ἔστι ... ὁ φίλος ἄλλος αὐτός" (A friend is another self), which I loved: you experience the world through loved ones too, and expand your consciousness (on a related note see Hofstadter's Strange Loop on his thoughts about having a version of his deceased wife's consciousness "running" in his brain). Later I learned that it came from the Nicomachean Ethics (https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristotle-nicomachean_ethics/1926/pb_LCL073.535.xml https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristotle-nicomachean_ethi...) and is much deeper that I thought. Bonus quote from Antisthenes: "τῷ σοφῷ ξένον οὐδὲν" (The wise person is foreign to nothing). One interesting thing about this one is that Ancient Greek had two words fro nothing: ouden and meden.