Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.