On the record44 BC
Virtue (without which friendship is impossible) is first; but next to it, and to it alone, the greatest of all things is Friendship.
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Cicero
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From his philosophical treatise on the nature of human relationships, Cicero asserts the supreme importance of friendship, second only to virtue.
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