Treatises On Friendship And Old Age
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This: no oneever makes any attempt of this sort without friends to help him. Wemust therefore impress upon good men that, should they become inevitablyinvolved in friendships with men of this kind, they ought not toconsider themselves under any obligation to stand by friends who aredisloyal to the republic. Bad men must have the fear of punishmentbefore their eyes: a punishment not less severe for those who followthan for those who lead others to crime. Who was more famous andpowerful in Greece... than Themistocles? At the head of the army in thePersian war he had freed Greece; he owed his exile to personal envy: buthe did not submit to the wrong done him by his ungrateful country ashe ought to have done. He acted as Coriolanus had acted among us twentyyears before. But no one was found to help them in their attacks upontheir fatherland. Both of them accordingly committed suicide.
We conclude, then, not only that no such confederation of evillydisposed men must be allowed to shelter itself under the plea offriendship, but that, on the contrary, it must be visited with theseverest punishment, lest the idea should prevail that fidelity to afriend justifies even making war upon one's country.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This: no oneever makes any attempt of this sort without friends to help him. Wemust therefore impress upon good men that, should they become inevitablyinvolved in friendships with men of this kind, they ought not toconsider themselves under any obligation to stand by friends who aredisloyal to the republic. Bad men must have the fear of punishmentbefore their eyes: a punishment not less severe for those who followthan for those who lead others to crime. Who was more famous andpowerful in Greece... than Themistocles? At the head of the army in thePersian war he had freed Greece; he owed his exile to personal envy: buthe did not submit to the wrong done him by his ungrateful country ashe ought to have done. He acted as Coriolanus had acted among us twentyyears before. But no one was found to help them in their attacks upontheir fatherland. Both of them accordingly committed suicide.
We conclude, then, not only that no such confederation of evillydisposed men must be allowed to shelter itself under the plea offriendship, but that, on the contrary, it must be visited with theseverest punishment, lest the idea should prevail that fidelity to afriend justifies even making war upon one's country.
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