Friendship

"Now friendship possesses many splendid advantages, but of course the finest thing of all about it is that it sends a ray of good hope into the future, and keeps our hearts from faltering or by falling by the wayside. For the man who keeps his eye on a true friend, keeps it, so to speak, on a model of himself. For this reason, friends are together when they are separated, they are rich when they are poor, strong when they are weak, and - a thing even harder to explain - they live on after they have died, so great is the honor that follows them, so vividly the memory, so poignant the sorrow."- Cicero On Friendship


In Cicero's "On Friendship" he said that a lifelong friend should be: trustworthy, loyalty, honest, reliable, share the same virtues, and share common interests. Not many people possess all of these attributes. I, however, am lucky enough to know a handful.