On Friendship

  • Author: Cicero
  • Publisher: Passerino

Synopsis

"This is all I had to say on friendship. One piece of advice on parting. Make up your minds to this: Virtue (without which friendship is impossible) is first; but next to it, and to it alone, the greatest of all things is Friendship."

Marcus Tullius Cicero



Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman politician and lawyer. 



Translation by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh