itaque celerius sine reprehensione propinquum aversere quam amicum, quia altera diremptio non utique iniquitatis, altera utique levitatis crimini subiecta est: cum enim deserta sit futura vita hominis nullius amicitiae cincta praesidio, tam necessarium subsidium temere adsumi non debet, semel autem recte apprehensum sperni non convenit.
So one would more easily escape blame in turning away from a kinsman than from a friend, because the one severance is not necessarily open to the charge of injustice, whereas the other is necessarily open to that of levity. For since a mans life will be deserted if not surrounded by the protection of any friendship, so needful a recourse ought not to be rashly taken up, but once properly grasped, ought not to be spurned.
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