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Real Friends Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- 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…
- It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
- For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
- 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.
- We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
- 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…
- You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
- Life is nothing without friendship.
- Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most…
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