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Latin phrases about friendship Starting with phrase number 46
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- Solem e mundo tollere videntur qui amicitiam e vita tollunt - It is like taking the sun from the world, the actions of those who to take friendship out of life (Cicero)
- Sus amica luto - The pig friend of the mud (Horace - Like a friend told me, arguing with engineers is like wrestling with a pig in the mud, after a while you realize that the pig likes it)
- Testimonium veritati, non amicitiae reddas - Truthful testimony, not given because of friendship (Seneca)
- Totus Debitum Pensus - All Debts Paid (Motto of a family who are friends of the Adams family.)
- Ul litigatores pro patrociniis certam iustamque mercedem dare - The litigants pay the sponsors a certain just price (Suetonius, a Roman historian (70-160) wrote about Nero - In those days, it was forbidden pay the lawyers, who were supposed to advise on the name of friendship. Emperor Nero enforced a compulsory pay )
- Verae amicitiae difficillime reperiuntur in iis, qui in honoribus reque publica versantur; ubi enim istum invenias, qui honorem amici anteponat suo? - The authentic friendships can hardly be among those who are in public office and in politics; for where could you find someone who would prefer the political advancement of his friend to his own? (Cicero - De Amicitia, 64)
- Verae amicitiae sempiternae sunt - True friendships are eternal
- Veram amicitiam in adversa fortuna videbamus - We'll see true friendship in times of bad luck
- Veri amici non prava exempla, sed bona consilia dant - Good friends do not give bad example, but good advice
- Verus amicus est tanquam alter idem - A true friend is like another self (Seen in boxes of Borkum Riff pipe tobacco)
- Verus amicus nunquam amici oblisviscitur - A true friend will never forget the old friend (Unconditional loyalty among friends)
- Viri infelicis procul amici - Friends stay away from an unhappy man (Seneca)
Total: 57
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