The Art of Worldly Wisdom(113)

In Prosperity prepare for Adversity. It is both wiser and easier to collect winter stores in summer. In prosperity favors are cheap and friends are many. It is well therefore to save them for more unlucky days, for adversity costs dear and has no helpers. Retain a store of friends and obliged persons; the day may come when their price will go up. Low minds never have friends — in luck they will not recognize them: in misfortune they will not be recognized by them.