“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. The friendship which can cease…”
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. The friendship which can cease has never been real.
Jerome · Letters · NPNF2 VI, Letters, Letter III, 6
The close of a letter to Rufinus, the friend of his youth at Aquileia. They quarrelled bitterly twenty years later over Origen and never repaired it, which is what gives the sentence its afterlife.
How this is known
These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
Read in Fremantle, Lewis & Martley, NPNF series 2 vol. 6 (1893) · W. H. Fremantle, M.A., with G. Lewis and W. G. Martley
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