How to Be a Friend (Cicero - hardcover)

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

ISBN: 9780691177199

Binding: hardcover

Section: Languages

Filled with timeless advice and insights, Cicero’s heartfelt and moving classic―written in 44 BC and originally titled De Amicitia―has inspired readers for more than two thousand years, from St. Augustine and Dante to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Presented here in a lively new translation with the original Latin on facing pages and an inviting introduction, How to Be a Friend explores how to choose the right friends, how to avoid the pitfalls of friendship, and how to live with friends in good times and bad. Cicero also praises what he sees as the deepest kind of friendship―one in which two people find in each other “another self” or a kindred soul.