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Ethica Nicomachea [Nicomachean Ethics]

Ethica Nicomachea [Nicomachean Ethics] (c. 350 BCE) Inferred

Aristotle (384–322 BCE) · c. 350 BCE

InferredFuller quotes what she treats as Emerson's memorable transcription of the Aristotelian aphorism "O my friends, there are no friends," a saying that circulated through Montaigne and Diogenes Laertius back to Aristotle's ethical writings.

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Documented 1837

Letters

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I bear constantly in heart that text of yours "0 my friends, there are no friends" but to me it is a paralyzing conviction.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller quotes what she treats as Emerson's memorable transcription of the Aristotelian aphorism "O my friends, there are no friends," a saying that circulated through Montaigne and Diogenes Laertius back to Aristotle's ethical writings.