A friend is, as it were, a second self. — Cicero

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

In the original Latin

est enim is qui est tamquam alter idem.

On Friendship · 44 BC
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "Laelius de Amicitia." M. Tullius Ciceronis: De Re Publica, De Legibus, Cato Maior de Senectute, Laelius de Amicitia, edited by J. G. F. Powell. Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de Amicitia. c. 43 BC, ch. 21, sect. 80.

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