Archive for prosperity

Posted in Euripides, Uncategorized with tags , , , on January 19, 2009 by pisateli

Prosperity is full of friends.

Euripides

Posted in Aeschylus, Uncategorized with tags , , on January 14, 2009 by pisateli

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. 

Aeschylus

Posted in Publilius Syrus, Uncategorized with tags , , , on January 12, 2009 by pisateli

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus,  a Latin writer of maxims, flourished in the 1st century BC.

Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags , , on January 3, 2009 by pisateli

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Cicero

Posted in Plutarch, Uncategorized with tags , , on September 3, 2008 by pisateli

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. 

Plutarch