Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Friends

Quotes about: Friends

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

• Friends are proved by adversity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Friends, Adversity

• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Adversity, World

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Friendship, Vices

• They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Sake, Dare

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”, p.186

• A true friend is a sort of second self.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, True Friend, Self

• There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Ties, Unity

  "Oratio Pro Cnœo Plancio", II, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 827-28,

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Real, Circumstances

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.163

• There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Perfect, Faithful

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