In the canon
On Friendship
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 44 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 60
Give a man a clear view of the whole universe, Archytas said, the beauty of the heavenly bodies, and the spectacle would be joyless with nobody to tell what he had seen. Cicero gives that thought to Gaius Laelius, days after Scipio's death, so the book on friendship is spoken by a man in the middle of losing one.
You might just as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.