Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.