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Sunt autem quidam Epicurei timidiores paulo contra
vestra convicia,1 sed tamen satis acuti, qui verentur ne,
si amicitiam propter nostram voluptatem expetendam
putemus, tota amicitia quasi claudicare videatur. itaque primos congressus copulationesque et consuetudinum instituendarum voluntates fieri propter voluptatem;23
cum autem usus progrediens familiaritatem effecerit,
tum amorem efflorescere tantum, ut, etiamsi nulla sit
utilitas ex amicitia, tamen ipsi amici propter se ipsos
amentur. etenim si loca, si fana, si urbes, si gymnasia,
si campum, si canes, si equos, si ludicra4 exercendi aut
venandi consuetudine5 adamare solemus, quanto id in
hominum consuetudine facilius fieri poterit6 et iustius?
M. Tulli Ciceronis scripta quae manserunt omnia, fasc. 43. de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. M. Tullius Cicero. Th. Schiche. Leipzig. Teubner. 1915.
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