It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
