Friendship’s transparent motives can extend into wider social settings.

Evidence

Some of what is met in true friendship can in fact be met in wider social settings. Motives which in all their complexity are transparent as the motives they are between friends can be made transparent between strangers. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1516

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultivated friendliness can become a near-genius social skill — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 508