The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

About Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero ( SISS-ər-oh, Classical Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlli.ʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the...

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

You can go through life and make new friends every year—every month practically—but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years.

—Alexander McCall Smith in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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When you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

—Kate Jacobs in The Friday Night Knitting Club

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