A Quote by Theophrastus

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

Theophrastus

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Theophrastus
Greek - Philosopher
370 BC - 285 BC

A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.

Herbert V. Prochnow

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

Norm MacDonald

Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

Gregory of Nazianzus

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

Aristotle

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

Plutarch

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

Into each of our lives come golden moments of adversity. This painful friend breaks our hearts, drops us to our knees, and makes us realize we are nothing without our Lord and Savior. This friend makes us plead all the night long for reassurance and into the next day and sometimes for weeks and months. But, ultimately, just as surely as the day follows the night, as we remain true and faithful, this strange friend, adversity, leads us straight into the outstretched arms of the Savior.

Glenn L. Pace

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Washington Irving

True friends don't hold us back spiritually or pull us down when we're trying to rise and progress. True friends protect us. True friends help us be better than we would be on our own.

Robert D. Hales

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

Elizabeth I

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

C.J. Langenhoven

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

Nicholas Ling

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Actually, I invited many Commonwealth leaders to come to Malaysia. They did not accept my invitation. By that, I mean, they didn't say they didn't accept, but they just didn't come here.

Mahathir Mohamad

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