On the record44 BC
It is not then properly friendship at all when the one will not listen to the truth, and the other is prepared to lie.
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Cicero
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gutenberg.orgCicero: “It is not then properly friendship at all when the one will not listen to the truth, and the other is prepared to lie.”
Editor's note · Context
Defining the essential qualities of true companionship, Cicero declares that a relationship lacking mutual honesty, where one person avoids truth and the other lies, cannot be considered genuine friendship.
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