Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.


Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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In Prosperity, we forget God but in Adversity we know Him!
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Only a fool gives lectures on drowning during a drought.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great
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Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
ROSE KENNEDY
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
ARISTOTLE
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age
LACTANTIUS
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
DAVID HARE
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
SENECA
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
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In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends
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In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
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Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
CHILO
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
CICERO
Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.
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They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...
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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the sec...
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Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know...
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Cities are the abyss of the human species
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive eno...
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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
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Truth is no road to fortune
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The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
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As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
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God made me and broke the mold.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
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The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
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It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
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She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and ...
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