The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.

Quintus Ennius

Quoted in On Friendship, by Cicero

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Topic

Tests of friendship

Speaker

Quintus Ennius

Author

Cicero

Source

On Friendship

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Latin

Time

44 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Italy Europe Roman Republic

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Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de Amicitia. c. 44 BC, ch. 17, sect. 64.

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Source
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Statement Type
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Language
Latin
Time
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Medium
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Statement Type
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Source
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Descartes, René. Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur [Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated]. Paris, 1641, first meditation.

Current Citation

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