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19. But at this point there arises a certain
question of some little difficulty: Are new friends
who are worthy of friendship, at any time to be
preferred to old friends, as we are wont to prefer
young horses to old ones? The doubt is unworthy
of a human being, for there should be no surfeit
of friendships as there is of other things; and, as
in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest
friendships ought to be the most delightful; moreover, the well-known adage is true: “Men must eat
many a peck of salt together before the claims of
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friendship are fulfilled.”1
1 Cf. Aristot. Eth. Eudem. vii. 2; Eth. Nic. viii. 3. 8.
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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