Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes about Friends
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
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
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.
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
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
"Oratio Pro Cnœo Plancio", II, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 827-28,