Letter 3031: You report what I had already perceived through hope and intuition: that the very first meeting opened the door of...
You report what I had already perceived through hope and intuition: that the very first meeting opened the door of friendship between you and those good men. This is exactly what your character and their judgment had led us to expect. For integrity, when introduced to its own kind, wins recognition easily.
I congratulate you on these new friendships and urge you to cultivate them. The best alliances are those formed not through calculation but through the natural affinity of like minds. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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