—Cicero.
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Not on the store of sprightly wine,
Nor plenty of delicious meats,
Though generous Nature did design
To court us with perpetual treats;
'Tis not on these we for content depend,
So much as on the shadow of a friend.
—Menander.
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Since human affairs are frail and fleeting, some persons must ever be sought for whom we may love, and by whom we may be loved; for when affection and kind feeling are done away with, all cheerfulness likewise is banished from existence.
—Cicero.
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Lying on lower levels is but a trivial offence compared with civility and compliments on the level of friendship.
—Thoreau.