Quote #45
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
More from Publilius Syrus
- Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
- Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.
- Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
- Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
- No one knows what he can do till he tries.
- It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
- It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
- Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio.