A Quote by Euripides

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

Euripides

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Euripides
Greek - Poet
480 BC - 406 BC

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

Elizabeth I

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

Francis Quarles

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

George Santayana

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

Elizabeth I

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

C.J. Langenhoven

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

Nicholas Ling

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

Nora Ephron

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

Philip Massinger

The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

Norm MacDonald

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.