If M. believes that "our free will has no product more properly its own than...friendship," why does he say it "seized his whole will [pp.107-10]?"

Why does M. believe that "a single dominant friendship" [p. 112] dissolves all other obligations?

Do any of M.'s observations on friendship apply to women?

Are friendship & solitude meant for different stages of one's life, or does M. make a case for holding them in a kind of perpetual,moderating balance?