“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.”
More from Cicero
-
“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
-
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
-
“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”
-
“We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.”
-
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”