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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters
One month in the school of affliction will teach thee more than the great precepts of Aristotle in seven years; for thou canst never judge rightly of human affairs, unless thou hast first felt the blows, and found out the deceits of fortune
Adversity is the first path to truth
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean
Genuine, morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself
Remember to be calm in adversity
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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