If any of us have any advantage in personal character, intellect, or fortune, we should be ready to make our friends sharers and partners in it with ourselves.
Laelius (in Cicero’s On Friendship)
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- On Friendship, section 19; translated by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh; Complete sentence in Laelius’s discussion of sharing advantages with friends rather than assuming superiority. Read surrounding examples and following section on equality and gratitude. Translator confirmed in Gutenberg bibliographic rec
- On Friendship, section 19; translated by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
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