A quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
3 I can name you many people who have friends and yet are without friendship; this is not the case, though, where equal willingness draws minds into a companionship of honorable intentions.* How could it be? For they know that everything they have is held in common, and especially their trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca • Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
“Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”—C. S. Lewis
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
Writer and scholar C.S. Lewis on what friends bring out in each other:
"If, of three friends (A, B, and C), A should die, then B loses not only A but "A's part in C," while C loses not only A but "A's part in B." In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whol... See more
"If, of three friends (A, B, and C), A should die, then B loses not only A but "A's part in C," while C loses not only A but "A's part in B." In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whol... See more
“When you laugh, the world laughs with you; but when you cry, you cry alone.”