Tarquin as he was going into exile: “I have learned what friends of mine are true and what are false, now that I am no longer able to reward or punish either

Tarquin as he was going into exile: “I have learned what friends of mine are true and what are false, now that I am no longer able to reward or punish either.” Quoted by Cicero. De Amictia. Laelius on friendship. Section 53.

Image: Tarquin's Sons Admiring Lucretia's Virtue by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, 1781 (PD)