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Latin phrases about friendship Starting with phrase number 16
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- Amicus humani generis - A friend of the human race (A philanthropist - It is also used in a satirical sense to describe people who are friends of the whole world without actually be friends with anyone, for example television personality and political leaders)
- Amicus protectio fortis - Strong protection by friends (Motto of Cedros school in Mexico City)
- Amicus usque ad aras - A friend as far as the altars (A friend whose only higher allegiance is to the Church, only God can separate them)
- Amor es fortior amitia - Love is stronger than friendship (Friendship can fail but true love fails not - Thank you: DR Goelic Medici )
- Amor, ex quo amicitia es nominata - Love from which takes its name friendship. (Cicero)
- Animula vagula blandula Hospes comesque corporis, Quae nunc abibis in loca Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nec, ut soles, dabis iocos - Little soul, soft, wandering guest and friend of the body, you'll go now pale, hard, bare spots and you will not play, as you usually did (Philosophical Term - these words were spoken by the emperor Hadrian Augustus, expresses the dualism body and soul, at the approach of death, longing for love games)
- Annorum vinum, socius vetus et vetus aurum - Old wine, old friend and old gold (The virtue of old age)
- Aurora Musis amica - Dawn is friend of the muses (The early bird gets the warm)
- Beatus est qui non caret de amici - Blessed is he who is not without friends
- Cisne carnem amicum inveni? - ¿Perhaps I have not found a friendly man?
- Cum amico et familiari sincere semper est agendum - Always proceed with honesty when dealing with friends and family
- Cum amico non certandum aemulatione - Do not compete with friends
- Cum amico omnia amara et dulcia communicata velim - I would like share all sorrows and all pleasures with my friend
- Decet amicitiam colere (retinere, tueri) - Cultivate friendship (Ciceron - De amicitia)
- Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos: Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris - As long as you are fortunate, you will have many friends: if clouds appear, you will be alone (Ovid Tristia)
- Dum eris felix, numerabis multos amicos. Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris. Ovidius - As long as you are fortunate, you will count many friends. If times become cloudy, you will be alone.
- Et monere et moneri proprium est verae amicitiae - It is a characteristic of true friendship to give advice and to receive it (Cicero - De amicitia)
- Hominibus plenum, amicis vacuum - Crowded with men, yet bare of friends.
- In amicitia nihil fictum est, nihil simulatum, et quidquid est, id est verum et voluntarium - In friendship there is nothing fictitious, nothing simulated, and it is in fact true and voluntary (Cicero - de Amicitia)
- Morum dissimilitudo dissociat amicitias - The difference in customs separate friends (Cicero)
- Multa hospicia, nullas amicitias - Many acquaintances, no friends
- Non sunt amici, amici qui degunt procul - Friends who spend time apart are not friends
- O amice, vir bonus es - Friend, you are a good man
- O socii (neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum), o passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem vos et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantis accestis scopulos, vos et Cyclopia saxa experti. revocate animos maestumque timorem mittite; forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - O friends (for we were not unknown to prior evils) O you who’ve endured worse, the god will grant an end to this too. You’ve faced rabid Scylla, and her deep-sounding cliffs. and you’ve experienced the Cyclopes’s rocks. remember your courage and chase away gloomy fears. (Virgil - The Aeneid I 22)
- Plures amicos mensa quam mens concipit - More friends are found at the table set for food than at the table set for reasoning (When times are hard, friends are few - Thank you: Robert Molefhabangwe)
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