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Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags , , , on January 18, 2009 by pisateli

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. 

Marcus Tulius Cicero

Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags , on January 18, 2009 by pisateli

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. 

Marcus Tulius Cicero

Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags , on January 18, 2009 by pisateli

Never injure a friend, even in jest. 

Marcus Tulius Cicero

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Marcus Tulius Cicero

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. 

Marcus Tulius Cicero

Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags , , on January 18, 2009 by pisateli

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. 

Marcus Tulius Cicero

Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags on January 18, 2009 by pisateli

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marcus Tulius Cicero

Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags , on January 18, 2009 by pisateli

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tulius Cicero