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Cicero: “Next, we should take care that friendship is not converted into active hostility, from which flow personal quarrels…”

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Next, we should take care that friendship is not converted into active hostility, from which flow personal quarrels, abusive language, and angry recriminations.
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Cicero

Editor'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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