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Shameful it is to say, yet the common herd, if only we admit the truth, value friendships by their profit.

— Ovid

Turpe quidem dictu, sed, si modo vera fatemur,
vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.

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II, iii, 7-8; translation by Arthur Leslie Wheeler

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