Next, we should take care that friendship is not converted into active hostility, from which flow personal quarrels, abusive language, and angry recriminations.
Cicero: “Next, we should take care that friendship is not converted into active hostility, from which flow personal quarrels…”
On the record44 BC
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Cicero
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Continuing his counsel on the proper handling of dissolving friendships, this passage warns against allowing former intimacy to devolve into active hostility and bitter conflict.
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