Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Friendship

Quotes about: Friendship

• 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 shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Reliability, Tests

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Life is nothing without friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Best Friend, Men

• 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

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Vices, Favors

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

• 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

• Friends are proved by adversity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Friends, Adversity

• 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.

• 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

• Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Loyalty

• Man's best support is a very dear friend.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Best Friend, Men

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

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Spring, Heart

• We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Wise, Views

• Never injure a friend, even in jest.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Philosophical, Jest

• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Friendship, Nature

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

• Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Kindness

• 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

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