“According as men thrive, their friends are true; if their affairs go to wreck, their friends sink with them. Fortune finds friends.”

— Plautus , Stichus

Variant translation: According as men thrive, their friends are true; if fortune fails, friends likewise disappear. Prosperity finds friends. (translator unknown)
Stichus (The Parasite Rebuffed)

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Ut cuique homini res parata est, firmi amici sunt : si res labat, itidem amici collabascunt. Res amicos invenit.

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Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period -254–-184 BC

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