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“Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.”
Aristophanes
“Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.”
Mark Twain
“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
Aeschylus
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them”
Publilius Syrus
“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”
Seneca
“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity”
Michael Porter
“There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.”
“In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.”
King Solomon