Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
friendship true-friend adversity
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
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A true friend is a sort of second self.
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There are no true friends in politics.
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The law in Athens is true in Rome
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I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.
directed good government ought receive trust
The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust
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The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers
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No man is so old as to think he can't live one more year
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... You can't clear your own fields while you're counting the rocks on your neighbor's farm.
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It's an exciting concept and we hope it will become a buzz of any town large or small.
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The minds of men do in the weather share, dark or serene as it's foul or fair
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The mind of each man is the man himself