Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Men, Feelings

• But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Passion, Affection

  "De Officiis".

• 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 fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Fire, Faithful

• If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stress, Giving, Affection

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3056, Delphi Classics

• We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Taken, Heart, Joy

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Affection, Divine, Accord

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

• The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Parent, Modesty, Youth

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