I am able to compare nothing with friendship; man says they give nothing. Some give money; others sane body; others fame and glory; others pleasure-but these men excessively wander, since those women are uncertain and out of fortune they come, not out of wisdom. Friendship, in fact, out of wisdom and love and good death and virtue comes; without virtue friendship is not able to be. If you have no friends, you have the life of a tyrant; if you come upon a true friend, your life is happy.
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You say friendship comes from "love and good death", but it should be "love and good habits". Moribus is similar to the word morbus, but moribus is actually the third declension noun mos (meaning habit) in the masculine-ablative form.
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