Quote

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Ancient Roman Priest
Jurist
Lawyer
Orator
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Dallas
Texas
Marcus Tullius Cicero
M. Tullii Ciceronis
Marcus Tullius -- Translations into French Cicero
Benefits
Lacks
Friendship
Sympathy
Words
Sincere
Means
Friendly
Mean
Mutual
Trying
Benefit
Always
Using
Rule
Supplying

More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Image
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
There were poets before Homer.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends turn where you will it is ever at your side no barrier shuts it out it is never untimely and never in the way.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
No man in his senses will dance.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?
Marcus Tullius Cicero