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for it means
much to share in common the same family traditions,
the same forms of domestic worship, and the same
ancestral tombs.
But of all the bonds of fellowship, there is none1
more noble, none more powerful than when good
men of congenial character are joined in intimate
friendship; for really, if we discover in another that
moral goodness on which I dwell so much, it attracts
us and makes us friends to the one in whose character
it seems to dwell.
1 (3) friendship,
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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