But what is more foolish, when men are in the plenitude of resources, opportunities, and wealth, than to procure the other things which money provides—horses, slaves, splendid raiment, and costly plate—and not procure friends, who are, if I may say so, life's best and fairest furniture? M. Tullius Cicero. De Amictia. Laelius on friendship.
Image: Roman poet Catullus reading to his friends, 1885, by Polish painter Stefan Bakalowicz (sometimes referred to as Stepan Bakalovich) courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. O
n display at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia.
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