A Quote by Horace
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
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Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?
Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.
I love adversity. It really reveals people, and I think I've handled it pretty good.
Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
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Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be seen. It cannot be produced or manufactured. It is something that even the true genius thinks is unattainable. The genius recognizes he’s just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms. Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
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