On the record44 BC
On the other hand, misfortunes would be hard to bear if there were not some one to feel them even more acutely than yourself.
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Cicero
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From his philosophical treatise on friendship, Cicero emphasizes the crucial role of a friend in alleviating the burden of personal suffering.
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But my soul, I know not how, refusing to be kept down, ever fixed its eyes upon future ages, as though from a conviction that it would begin to live only when it had left the body.
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Again, is there not the fact that the wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness, the most unwise with the least?
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