A Quote by Plutarch

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

Plutarch

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Plutarch
Greek - Philosopher
46 - 120

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

Theophrastus

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

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

Jodi Picoult

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

Elizabeth I

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

C.J. Langenhoven

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

Nicholas Ling

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

Norm MacDonald

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

Euripides

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

Aristotle

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

Elizabeth I

If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.

Massimo Vignelli

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

Livy

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

James Howell

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

Thomas Carlyle

Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a page, or whatever if it's just right. A scale is a relationship to the object and the space surrounding it. And that dialogue could be music, or it could be just noise. And that is why it is so important, the sense of scale.

Massimo Vignelli

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