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On Friendship
by Cicero
Laelius on true friendship: based on virtue, not utility; honest counsel; loyalty with limits. The classical treatise on the subject.
Read it if…
you want the classic philosophy of friendship.
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Skip it if…
you want modern research.
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Three things you will actually use
- Friendship needs virtue.
- Counsel honestly.
- Never ask a friend to do wrong.
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Read it alongside On Old Age.
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Cicero on friendship.
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