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But it is of the utmost importance in friendship
that superior and inferior should stand on an equality.
For oftentimes a certain pre-eminence does exist,
as was that of Scipio in what I may call “our set.”
But he never affected any superiority over Philus, or
Rupilius, or Mummius, or over his other friends of
a lower rank. For example, his brother Quintus
Maximus, a distinguished man, no doubt, though
by no means his equal, was treated by him as a
superior, because he was older than himself. Indeed
Scipio desired that he might be the cause of enhancing
the dignity of all his friends.
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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