On Friendship

I found this quote by Marus Tullius Cicero and I thought I would share it:

"The most difficult thing in the world is for a friendship to remain unimpaired to the end of life. So many things might intervene: conflicting interests; differences of opinion in politics; frequent changes in character. Let this, then, be laid down as the first law of friendship, that we should ask from friends, and do for friends, only what is good. But do not let us wait to be asked either...Let us have the courage to give advice with candor.

How can life be worth living which lacks that repose which is to be found in the mutual goodwill of a friend? What can be more delightfcul than to have someone to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?

The greatest of all things is Friendship."