A Quote by Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
French - Novelist
February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

George Farquhar

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Aristotle

War makes monsters out of men.

Patrick Ness

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

John Ray

Adversity makes men remember God.

Livy

The logical outcome of evolution is that it makes monsters. We turn into monsters because evolution takes away everything that makes us human in the sense of our moral accountability, our moral absolutes, and our idea of being distinct from the animal kingdom.

Frank Peretti

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

Confucius

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

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We were king’s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.” “Are you saying you are monsters?” “I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne

George R. R. Martin

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Anne Bradstreet

Overcoming adversity not only makes you stronger, it makes you more hopeful.

Valerie Jarrett

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

Nellie L. McClung

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

Patrick Ness

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