“Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
“Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.”
Maxim 35
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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