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SCAEVOLA. Well said, Fannius. Therefore, let us
hear.
10. LAELIUS. Then listen, most worthy gentlemen,
to the points very frequently mentioned between
Scipio and me in our discussions of friendship. Now
he, indeed, used to say that nothing was harder than
for a friendship to continue to the very end of life;
for it often happened either that the friendship
ceased to be mutually advantageous, or the parties
to it did not entertain the same political views;
and that frequently, too, the dispositions of men
were changed, sometimes by adversity and sometimes
by the increasing burdens of age. And then he
would draw an illustration of this principle from the
analogy of early life. “For,” said he, “the most
ardent attachments of boyhood are often laid aside
with the boyish dress; ”
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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