And if we add, as we may fairly do, that nothing so powerfully attracts and draws one thing to itself as likeness does to friendship, it will at once be admitted to be true that the good love the good and attach them to themselves as though they were united by blood and nature.
From a philosophical treatise on the nature of friendship, explaining how shared virtues and likeness naturally draw good people together.
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