Cicero - Friendship Quotes

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

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

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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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 in the way.

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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 intimate friendship.

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Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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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 fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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

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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 should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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

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For friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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

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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 better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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

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

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