The book De Amicitia (On Friendship) And Scipio's Dream was written by author Cicero Marcus Tullius Here you can read free online of De Amicitia (On Friendship) And Scipio's Dream book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is De Amicitia (On Friendship) And Scipio's Dream a good or bad book?
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If it is not perfectly understood what virtue there is in friendship and concord, it may he learned from dissension and discord. Por what house is so stable, what state so firm, that it cannot be utterly overturned by hatred and strife ? Hence it may be ascertained how much good there is in friendship. It is said that a certain philosopher of Agrigentum ^ sang in Greek verse that it is friend- ship that draws together and discord that parts aU things which subsist in harmony, and which have the...ir various movements in nature and in the whole universe. The worth and power of friendship, too, aU mortals understand, and attest by their approval in actual instances. Thus, if there comes into con- spicuous notice an occasion on which a friend incurs or shares the perils of his friend, who can fail to extol the deed with the highest praise ? What shouts filled the whole theatre at the per- formance of the new play of my guest ^ and friend Marcus Pacuvius, when — the king not knowin
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