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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship).
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
For friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Laelius De Amicitia – Laelius On Friendship (-44)
A friend is, as it were, a second self.