A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

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

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

Euripides

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

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

Elizabeth I

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

George Farquhar

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Aristotle

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Livy

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Elie Wiesel

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

Confucius

But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.

R. A. Salvatore

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

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