Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Related Quotes:
- Friendship improves happiness, abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief. – John
- Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- In times of war, the law falls s – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned – yet whose enormous fortune…has already brought him acquittal! – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- An unjust peace is better than a just war. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- For walk where we will, we tread upon some story. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- We are bound by the law, so that we may be free. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.) – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. – Bridget Asher
- There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote. – David Foster Wallace
- Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. – Joan Didion
- friendship is not gold, but it’s more value;friendship is not diamond, but it’s more glory;friendship is not iron, but it’s more strong – suresh kannan kottarathil sk
- When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark. – Rae Carson
- He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. – Sheldon B Kopp
- No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery. – Dada Bhagwan
- Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery? – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us. – Arthur Golden
- Dividing the goal into pieces must be brought down to the smallest measurable element, a day, to know exactly what to do every day – Sunday Adelaja
- We feel the most balance when we’re not dividing ourselves on other people’s scales. – Curtis Tyrone Jones
- People who insist on dividing the world into ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ never contemplate that they may be someone else’s ‘Them’. – Ray A Davis
- Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power. – Dan Groat
- This is a paradox of Whitefield’s legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination. – Melanie Ross
- The ‘humanity’ that we bear is stuck in dividing grades. The affinity, the warmth in our hearts has turned partial accordingly. – Nikhil Bhardwaj
- It’s as if there is infinity between our lips and we will never actually touch. Like math, where dividing by half can last for eternity. – Carrie Ryan