So it is that fellow-citizens are preferred in our affections to foreigners, relations to strangers; for in their case Nature herself has caused a kind of friendship to exist, though it is one which lacks some of the elements of permanence.
Cicero explains the natural preference for fellow citizens and relations, attributing it to an inherent, though sometimes less permanent, form of friendship.
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