Classic Moments Daily

In friendship, let the influence of friends who are wise counselors be paramount

Dare to give true advice with all frankness

Alliances of wicked men should be visited with summary punishment of the severest kind

For wicked men, a penalty must be enacted, and assuredly it will not be lighter for the followers than for the leaders in treason

Revolution creeps on imperceptibly at first but once it has acquired momentum, rushes headlong to ruin

A good general discharges his responsibilities with honesty and wisdom

Men who are afraid hate those who inspire this feeling in them

Neither ask dishonorable things, nor do them, if asked.

It is no justification whatever of your sin to have sinned in behalf of a friend.

By their ceaseless recriminations not only are social intimacies usually destroyed, but also everlasting enmities are produced. M. Tullius Cicero. De Amicitia. Laelius on friendship

Disagreements of a very serious nature, and usually justifiable, arise from a demand upon friends to do something that is wrong

The greatest bane of friendship is the lust for money

One should either share the good fortunes of another, or have no part in his misfortunes.