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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

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

Aristotle

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

Nicholas Ling

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Rose Kennedy

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

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

Elizabeth I

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

C.J. Langenhoven

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Hugo

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

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

George Farquhar

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

Euripides

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Elizabeth I

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

Theophrastus

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

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