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The second view limits friendship to an equal
[p. 169]
interchange of services and feelings. It surely is
calling friendship to a very close and petty accounting
to require it to keep an exact balance of credits
and debits. I think true friendship is richer and
more abundant than that and does not narrowly
scan the reckoning lest it pay out more than it has
received; and there need be no fear that some bit
of kindness will be lost, that it will overflow the
measure and spill upon the ground, or that more
than is due will be poured into friendship's bin.
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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