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Friendship Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
- For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
- 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…
- 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…
- A friend is, as it were, a second self.
- Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
- Never injure a friend, even in jest.
- What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
- Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.
- Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never…
- Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything…
- Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
- It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
- Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and…
- I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.
- He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
- All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so…
- It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
- It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
- Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
- It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by…
- Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate…
- Friends, though absent, are still present.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle