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
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Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags Cicero, friendship, life, quotes on January 18, 2009 by pisateli
Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags Cicero, friendship 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 Cicero, friend on January 18, 2009 by pisateli
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
Marcus Tulius Cicero
Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags beauty, Cicero, friendship, love, quotes on January 18, 2009 by pisateli
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tulius Cicero
Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags Cicero, friends, quotes 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 Cicero, friends, reliability on January 12, 2009 by pisateli
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero
Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags Cicero, fidelity, virtue on January 5, 2009 by pisateli
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
Cicero
Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags Cicero, friendship, prosperity on January 3, 2009 by pisateli
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero
