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it seems to me that the Muses aided our old writers to complete their finest and most esteemed works by calling in exile as a fellow-worker
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these things occurring daily and being importunate make the mind little, and narrow, and unsocial, and harsh, and timid, so that, being besieged and taken in hand by grief, it can no longer laugh, and shuns daylight, and avoids society
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a friend should be like money tried before being required, not found faulty in our need
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not to find friends at a time when you want them is hard, as also not to be able to exchange an inconstant and bad friend for a constant and good one
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intimacy is the full enjoyment of friendship, and most pleasant is companying with and spending the day with a friend
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Whereas having many friends puts people apart and severs and disunites them, by transferring and shifting the tie of friendship too frequently, and does not admit of a mixture and welding of goodwill by the diffusing and compacting of intimacy.
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Might not someone jeer at us in the same way, as being afraid, when we have not yet one firm friendship, that we shall without knowing it fall upon an abundance of friends?