A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Friendship Life Like Robbing Sun World

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Women hold themselves back because they don't think their perspective matters. I'm here to tell you that you're not just robbing yourself when you do that: you're robbing all of us.

Jennifer Palmieri

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thomas de Quincey

By refusing to lend a hand, we are not only robbing our colleagues and peers of the opportunity to gain guidance, but we are also robbing ourselves of the opportunity to lead.

Rebecca Serle

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

George Bernard Shaw

Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.