A Quote by Seneca the Younger

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

Seneca the Younger

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Adversity Fire Gold Men Proves

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Seneca the Younger
Roman - Philosopher
4 BC - 65

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

M. M. Mangasarian

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

Beryl Markham

A big blizzard proves there's no global warming in the same way being out of milk proves there's no such thing as cows.

Dana Gould

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Seneca the Younger

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Martha Graham

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

George Santayana

It only serves to show what sort of person a man must be who can't even get testimonials. No, no; if a man brings references, it proves nothing; but if he can't, it proves a great deal.

Joseph Pulitzer

All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

Oliver Goldsmith

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

Dwayne Johnson

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

Carl Schmitt

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?

Rand Paul

To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation. You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace.

Nhat Hanh

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.