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adversity

Quotes including the word “adversity”.

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Aristotles

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Horace

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Saadi

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Seneca

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.