“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Source: On Living and Dying Well
“Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.”
Source: Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate
Source: Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream
“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
Source: M. Tullii Ciceronis, De Senectute Et De Amicitiâ
“Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.”
“Man's best support is a very dear friend.”
Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes
“Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger
“There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.”
“He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.”
Source: Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate
Source: Thoughts of Cicero: On the Following Subjects, Viz. I. Religion. II. Man. III. Conscience. IV. The Passions. V. Wisdom. VI. Probity. VII. Eloquence. VIII. Friendship. IX. Old Age. X. Death. XI. Scipio's Dream. XII. Miscellaneous Thoughts
Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger
“Friends, though absent, are still present.”
Source: Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate
“Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.”