Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Happiness is only real when shared.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.

No possession is gratifying without a companion.

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

I love sharing my life with people.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

An unshared happiness is not happiness.