• It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero: It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Amicitia, XIX, 1922.