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Hence
such alliances of wicked men not only should not be
protected by a plea of friendship, but rather they
should be visited with summary punishment of the
severest kind, so that no one may think it permissible
to follow even a friend when waging war against his
country. And yet this very thing, considering the
course affairs have begun to take, will probably
happen at some future time; as for me, I am no
less concerned for what the condition of the commonwealth will be after my death, than I am for its
condition to-day.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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