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25. As, therefore, it is characteristic of true
friendship both to give and to receive advice and,
on the one hand, to give it with all freedom of
speech, but without harshness, and on the other
hand, to receive it patiently, but without resentment, so nothing is to be considered a greater bane
of friendship than fawning, cajolery, or flattery;
for give it as many names as you choose, it deserves
to be branded as a vice peculiar to fickle and false-hearted men who say everything with a view to
pleasure and nothing with a view to truth.
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