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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Life, Friendship

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Sympathy, Mean

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Absence, Absent Friends
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.181

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

Friends are proved by adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Friends, Adversity

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Motivational, Friendship, Truth

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Laughter, Heart

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Kindness

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Loyalty

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, World, Mankind
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero: On the Following Subjects, Viz. I. Religion. II. Man. III. Conscience. IV. The Passions. V. Wisdom. VI. Probity. VII. Eloquence. VIII. Friendship. IX. Old Age. X. Death. XI. Scipio's Dream. XII. Miscellaneous Thoughts”, p.213

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Philosophical, Jest

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Friendship, Vices

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Spring, Heart

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Vices, Favors

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Philosophical, Cat
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1850). “M. Tullii Ciceronis, De Senectute Et De Amicitiâ”, p.63

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Grief, Adversity

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Best Friend, Men

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Real, Virtue
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Reliability, Tests

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Respect, Ornaments
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.203

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Irritation, Giving
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.39, Cosimo, Inc.

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Fire, Hands

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Support, Nature Love
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.206

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Salt, Common
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Amicitia, XIX, 1922.

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