A Quote by Horace

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

Horace

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

Francis Quarles

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Livy

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

Michael Arndt

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

William Penn

Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.