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Therefore a fatal mistake is
made by those who think that friendship opens wide
the door to every passion and to every sin. Friendship was given to us by nature as the handmaid of
virtue, not as a comrade of vice; because virtue
cannot attain her highest aims unattended, but only
in union and fellowship with another. Such a
partnership as this, whether it is, or was, or is yet
to be, should be considered the best and happiest
comradeship along the road to nature's highest
good.
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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