Quote #21
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Cicero
- A friend is, as it were, a second self.
- Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
- O tempora, o mores!.
- Prima enim sequentem honestum est in secundis tertiisque consistere. (3)
- Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?
- Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum…
- Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
- Hannibal ad portas