Adversity Quotes

Chilo - be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity...
In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.
Churton Collins
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca, Epistles
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
Seneca
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
John Ray
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.
Anonymous
Romanian prove - adversity makes a man wise, not rich....
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
English Prove
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Ben Jonson
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace, Odes
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt