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• In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.
  Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 99, later suppressed...
• In the misfortune of our friends we find something that is not displeasing to us.
  -- La Rochefoucauld, "Maxim...
• Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemie
  but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends....
• You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. l...
• Trouble is like a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances.
  Those too big to pass through are our friends. -- Arlene Franci...
• Let us fly and save our bacon. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. lv
• To return to our wethers. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book i, Chap. i, n, 2
• We have here other fish to fry. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. xii