If people think that friendship springs from weakness and from a purpose to secure someone through whom we may obtain that which we lack, they assign… - Cicero

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If people think that friendship springs from weakness and from a purpose to secure someone through whom we may obtain that which we lack, they assign her, if I may so express it, a lowly pedigree indeed, and an origin far from noble, and they would make her the daughter of poverty and want.