« We advise a man to regard his friends as highly as himself, to reflect that an enemy may become a friend, to stimulate love in the friend, and to check hatred in the enemy. »
– Seneca
« The necessity of circumstances proves friends and detects enemies. »
– Epictetus
« One who seeks friendship for favourable occasions, strips it of all its nobility. »
– Seneca
« In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things. »
– Epictetus
« With the exception of wisdom, I’m inclined to believe that the immortal gods have given nothing better to humanity than friendship. »
– Cicero
« For what purpose, then, do I make a man my friend? In order to have someone for whom I may die, whom I may follow into exile, against whose death I may stake my own life, and pay the pledge, too. »
– Seneca
“Friendship produces between us a partnership in all our interests. There is no such thing as good or bad fortune for the individual; we live in common. And no one can live happily who has regard to himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility; you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself. ”
— Seneca
