Quote #20
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
More from Cicero
- O tempora, o mores!.
- The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
- Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?
- Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
- Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
- Prima enim sequentem honestum est in secundis tertiisque consistere. (3)
- A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
- Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum…