“…Namque hoc praestat amicitia propinquitati, quod ex propinquitate benevolentia tolli potest, ex amicitia non potest. […]Quanta autem vis amicitiae sit, ex hoc intellegi maxime potest. […] Est enim amicitia nihil aliud nisi omnium divinarum humanarumque rerum cum benevolentia et caritate consensio, qua quidam haud scio an, excepta sapientia, nihil melius homini sit a dis immortalibus datum.”
Cicero, " De Amicitia"
"...indeed friendship in its full sense, has precedence of kinship in this particular, that good-will may be taken away from friendship kinship, not from. [...]. How great is the force of friendship we may best understand from this .[...] Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to, man by the immortal gods "
7 comments:
Thank you for the pressie at the Magi headquarters!
I also loved Mayo's poem and the latin for SS.
I did cheat and look at your translaton though.
Hope you have the very merriest of christmasses!
Thank you dei!
I'm glad you liked them!
And...to be honest, I did study Latin but I searched for the translation on the web! ;D
Wish you a great Christmas,sweetie.
*HUGS & KISSES"
Hey Bella!!!
I love your gift for us!
I wanted to drop by and wish you a Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2008 :)
May they both bring you everything you've wanted and yearned for.
Love.
Mustard
Tis the night before christmas eve and this little xmas fairy is being like santa. Whereas he travels the world bringing pressies to all, I travel round blogland giving snogs and christmas wishes to all. So, what do you want? *waves her magic wand* Tis done.
hey bella.
i havent spoke to you for ages. i miss that
just want to wish you merry christmas and i hope you have a lovely day
love
fimble star
Bella, you have a blog? Why was I not informed? ;p
I hope you're doing okay. Take care. All my love, BC
Hello, Bella!
Friendship, indeed. One of the best words in ANY language!
Thank you so much for the kind words you left on our blog. You don't know how much we appreciated them. We haven't got to talk to you much, and I hope in the new year, that can be corrected! :)
Love you,
L. (and J.)
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