Marcus Tullius Cicero - “The shifts of fortune test the...”

“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Senectute, De Amicitia

Similar quotes

“He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.”

Victor Hugo Les Misérables

“Friends pass the test of time.”

David J. Henderhan

“Adversity tests the sincerity of friends”

Aesop

“This is treachery, to change faith in accord with shifting fortune. The justice of my cause impelled me to withstand even adverse circumstance.”

Ulrich von Hutten Ulrich von Hutten and the German Reformation

“Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.”

Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre