Friendship was given to us by nature as the handmaid of virtue, not as a comrade of vice, because virtue cannot attain her highest aims unattended. M. Tullius Cicero. De Amictia. Laelius on friendship. Section 83.
Image: Personification of the Roman virtue of Fortitude by Agostino Busti, 1520-1525, at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, courtesy of the museum and Wikimedia Commons.
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