A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Saint Jerome. Letter to Rufinus the Monk. c. 374, sect. 6.
Saint Jerome. Letter to Rufinus the Monk. c. 374, sect. 6.
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Aristotle. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 20.
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Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 8, ch. 7.
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Plutarch. "Περὶ τοῦ ἀκούειν [On Hearing]." Ἠθικά Ethika [Moralia]. c. 100 AD.
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Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 1, prop. 15, note.
Bacon, Francis "Of Great Place." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.
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