Friendship Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man's friend is no man's friend.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A true friend is a sort of second self.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self…”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation -…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

“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

There are no true friends in politics.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no life without friendship

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The real friend is another self.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero