On the record44 BC
For, seeing that a belief in a man's virtue is the original cause of friendship, friendship can hardly remain if virtue he abandoned.
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Cicero
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Editor's note · Context
In a treatise on friendship, Cicero asserts that virtue is the essential basis for true companionship, which cannot endure without it.
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