A Quote by C.J. Langenhoven
Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.
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So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.
Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.
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