Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?”
- Source
- Laelius on Friendship
- Date
- 44 BCE
- Local voice
- Dialogue speaker · Gaius Laelius
- English wording
- Evelyn S. Shuckburgh — Translator · from Latin
Meaning of “What can be more delightful than to have…”
Close friendship creates a rare space for frank speech because confidence in the other person removes the need for continual self-protection.
Where does it come from?
Laelius on Friendship, translated by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh in Project Gutenberg’s Treatises on Friendship and Old Age.
Why the local voice matters
Laelius on Friendship / De Amicitia. Cicero’s preface identifies Laelius as the chief speaker and says the whole essay on friendship is his response to Fannius and Scaevola.
