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The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. — Quintus Ennius

Philosophical literature

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

In the original Latin

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.

Quintus Ennius
Quoted in On Friendship, by Cicero · 44 BC
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Tests of friendship
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44 BCClassical antiquity
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de Amicitia. c. 44 BC, ch. 17, sect. 64.

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