It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not, it’s because we dare not that things are difficult. Seneca
How many things, that we would never do for ourselves, do we do for the sake of our friends! Cicero De amicitia
Virtue, I say to you, Caius Fannius, and to you, Quintus Mucius, -- virtue both forms and preserves friendships. In it is mutual agreement; in it is stability; in it is consistency of conduct and character. When it has put itself forth and shown its light, and has seen and recognized the same light in another, it draws near to that light, and receives in return what the other has to give; and from this intercourse love, or friendship, -- call it which you may, -- is kindled. These terms are equally derived in our language from loving; [Footnote: "Amor"..."amicitia"..."ab amando".] and to love is nothing else than to cherish affection for him whom you love, with no felt need of his service, with no quest of benefit to be obtained from him; Cicero, De Amicitia, (translated by Andrew Peabody)
