Friendship may be shortly defined, a perfect conformity of opinions upon all religious and civil subjects, united with the highest degree of mutual esteem and affection.
Virtue is at once both the parent and the support of friendship. (Virtue the attainable degree of moral merit ... exemplified in actual practice.
Wealth is pursued for the particular uses to which it is solely applicable; power, in order to receive worship; honours, for the sake of fame; sensual indulgences, on account of the gratifications that attend them; and health, as he means of living exempt from pain and possessing the unobstructed exercise of all our corporeal faculties. Whereas friendship is adapted by its nature to an infinite number of different ends; accommodates itself to all circumstances and situations of human life; and can at no season prove either unfuitable or inconvenient.
-Cicero
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