True friendships are very hard to find among those whose time is spent in office or in business of a public kind

True friendships are very hard to find among those whose time is spent in office or in business of a public kind. For where can you find a man so high-minded as to prefer his friend's advancement to his own? M. Tullius Cicero.  De Amictia.  Laelius on friendship.  Section 64.

Image:  Sacrificial attendant (victimarius or popa) with axe for killing the animal. Marble, Carthage c. 50-150 C.E. courtesy of Wikimedia contributor McLeod.