Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Friends
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A true friend is a sort of second self.
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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.
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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
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Friends are proved by adversity.
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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.
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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.
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