Therefore I gather that friendship springs from a natural impulse rather than a wish for help: from an inclination of the heart, combined with a certain instinctive feeling of love, rather than from a deliberate calculation of the material advantage it was likely to confer.
In his work exploring the essence of human bonds, Cicero argues that genuine friendship arises from an innate emotional connection, not from practical considerations.
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