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Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

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Thucydides
Greek - Historian
460 BC - 395 BC

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 our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.

Rachel Simon

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

Epictetus

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

Livy

No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.

Isaac Barrow

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

Norm MacDonald

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Simon Newcomb

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

John Calvin

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape.

George F. Kennan

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Kin Hubbard

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Plutarch

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

Kin Hubbard

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Samuel Butler

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