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“Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.”
I Ching
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.”
“It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.”
King Solomon
“Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.”
Billy Graham
“Beware of the friend who was once your foe.”
Proverb
“The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Adversity is the foundation of virtue”
Japanese Proverb
“He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.”
William Shakespeare
