Marcus Tullius Cicero Friend Quotations

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

There are no true friends in politics.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.