M. Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia, William Armistead Falconer (Translator), 49

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[49] For is there anything so absurd as to delight in many inanimate things, like public office, fame, and stately buildings, or dress and personal adornment, and to take little or no delight in a sentient being endowed with virtue and capable of loving, and—if I may so term it—of loving back¹? For nothing gives more pleasure than the return of goodwill and the interchange of zealous service.

De Amicitia. M. Tullius Cicero. William Armistead Falconer (Translator). Cambridge. 1923.

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Laelius on Friendship (English) (Cicero. De Senectute, De Amicitia, De Divinatione. Falconer, William Armistead, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1923 (printing).)

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Laelius De Amicitia Perseus (Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De senectute; De amicitia; De divinatione. Falconer, W. A., editor. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1923.) — 49 focus

[49] quid enim tam absurdum quam delectari multis inanibus rebus, ut honore, ut gloria, ut aedificio, ut vestitu cultuque corporis, animante virtute praedito, eo qui vel amare vel, ut ita dicam, redamare possit, non admodum delectari? nihil est enim remuneratione benevolentiae, nihil vicissitudine studiorum officiorumque iucundius.

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Laelius on Friendship

1. Cicero coins the word redamare from the Greek ἀντιφιλεῖν, but uses it nowhere else.

M. Tullius Cicero De Amicitia 49

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