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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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nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space
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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?
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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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As therefore the shoe is shaped by the foot, and not the foot by the shoe, so does the disposition make the life similar to itself.