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Moreover, hypocrisy is not only wicked under all circumstances, because it pollutes truth and takes away the
power to discern it, but it is also especially inimical
to friendship, since it utterly destroys sincerity,
without which the word friendship can have no
meaning. And since the effect of friendship is to
make, as it were, one soul out of many, how will
that be possible if not even in one man taken by
himself shall there be a soul always one and the
same, but fickle, changeable, and manifold?
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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