Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.
A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.