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Thus do they fail to attain that loveliest,
most spontaneous friendship, which is desirable
in and for itself; and they do not learn from their
own experience what the power of such friendship
is and are ignorant of its nature and extent. For
everyone loves himself, not with a view of acquiring
some profit for himself from his self-love, but because
he is dear to himself on his own account; and unless
this same feeling were transferred to friendship,
the real friend would never be found; for he is, as
it were, another self.
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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