Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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.]
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Senectute, De Amicitia, De Divinatione. Translated by William Armistead Falconer, Harvard University Press, 1923, p. 133.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
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