“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
Mark Twain
“From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.”
Victor Hugo
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle”
Winston Churchill
“When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself”
“In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty”
English Proverb
“Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.”
Plutarch
“A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity”
Muslih-uddin Sadi
