Book · 44 BC · Nonfiction

On Friendship

Name: On Friendship
Author: Cicero

Penguin (Penguin Random House) · 384 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Cicero gives the argument to Laelius, a statesman grieving his dead friend: real friendship binds only good men, is wanted for nothing beyond itself, and makes fortune brighter and hardship lighter.

Genre

Moral philosophy Ethics Dialogue

Medium

Treatise

Subject

Friendship Virtue Ethics Loyalty

Setting

Rome

Time

44 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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