Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
– Syrus
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- In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. – John Churton Collins
- Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo
- Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo
- Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested. – C.J. Langenhoven
- Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. – Plutarch
- Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. – Cicero
- Prosperity makes few friends. – Luc Clapier
- Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. – Vauvenargues
- In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty. – English Proverb