A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour. Never! I say; NEVER. Wrangling, even in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humour merely to tease, becomes earnest by practice.
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.
He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.
If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.
I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.
I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of all reason it will stay by your side, and even when you tell it, "I am moving on now," it will say, "I shall never leave you; never." If only I could find a lover as faithful as guilt.
It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
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