adversity Quotes

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Love is a kind of warfare.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.