Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

There's a lot of pretense out there. It can be exhausting. When people see something genuine, even if it's something as simple as two people actually being friends, actually enjoying what they're doing, or actually standing up for each other, that translates in a big way.

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Good friends won't let you off the hook when you shouldn't be let off the hook. You can let fall the masks we seem to need to survive in a cutthroat world. There is a value of truth that we typically don't find in other parts of life.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each other’s honesty.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

I always seek one quality in my friends - that they should be genuine.

I like a girl that's just fun to be around. They make me laugh, but also they're faithful and honest. And it's all in the eyes.

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.

Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

What good was owning the world when he’d have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he’d rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.’ (Aiden)

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.