Quote

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

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
Grief
Lightens
Friendship
Griefs
Makes
Anxieties
Brighter
Sharing
Adversity
Prosperity
Anxiety

More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Image
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
The popular breeze - Aura popularis
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Pardon is granted to necessity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
There were poets before Homer.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses we comprehend it merely in the imagination.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Time is the herald of truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Image
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero