Cicero on Saint Patrick's Day
b. 106 BC
10 quotes
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship).
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.
So live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts
Misattributed
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cicero (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.