Letter 1644: I consider the truest rule of friendship to be the one who agrees with his brothers without making excuses, who...
What the straight rule of friendship is: I consider the straightest canon of friendship to be the one without excuse...
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Latin / Greek Original
Οκω εοτία αμπιϊεϊἰα τέσμία. Ἐγὼ κανόνα. φιλίας εὐθύτατον ἡγοῦμαι τὸν ἀπροφασίστως μὲν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς συμπνέοντα, μήτε ὃὲ χολαχείᾳ τὰς φιλίας προσαγόμενον, μῆτε λάθρα μεταχειριξόμενον τὰς ἔχθρας " ἀλλὰ πρὸς ἅπαντα τὴν Ψυχὴν γυμνὸν, ἁπλοῦν μὲν τυγχάνοντα τὴν γνώμην, ἁπλοῦν δὲ τὴν γλῶτταν, ἁπλούστερον δὲ ἔτι μᾶλλον τὸν βίον.
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- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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