Friendship springs rather from nature than from need

It seems to me that friendship springs rather from nature than from need, and from an inclination of the soul joined with a feeling of love rather than from calculation of how much profit the friendship is likely to afford. M. Tullius Cicero. Laelius on friendship. Section 27.

Image: Busts of Hadrian and Antinous at the British Museum 2nd century CE. Hadrian had married into the imperial family, but in his late forties met a Greek youth named Antinous from Bithynia, now in modern Turkey, possibly during a tour of that province in 123 CE. After Antinous drowned in the Nile, Hadrian deified him, an honor usually only reserved for members of the imperial family. Image courtesy of the British Museum.