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16. We now have to determine in our discussion
of friendship what are the limits and, so to speak,
the boundary lines of affection. On this point I
observe that three views are usually advanced, none
of which I approve: first, “That we should have the
same feeling for our friends that we have for ourselves”; second, “That our goodwill towards our
friends should correspond in all respects to their
goodwill towards us,” and third, “That whatever
value a man places upon himself, the same value
should be placed upon him by his friends.”
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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