There is a sort of disaster in connection with breaking off friendships...Cato used to say, "They should be unraveled rather than rent apart," unless there has been some outbreak of utterly unbearable wrongdoing, so that the only course consistent with rectitude and honor, and indeed the only one possible, is to effect an immediate withdrawal of affection and association. M. Tullius Cicero. De Amictia. Laelius on friendship. Section 76.
Image: Image: Cleopatra and Octavian by Guercino, 1630-1649, at the Capitoline Museums in Rome courtesy of the Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons.
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