It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.


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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...
NICHOLAS LING
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.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
CHURTON COLLINS
In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends
G.K. CHESTERTON
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. -John Churton Collins.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCH
Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty
ENGLISH PROVERB
Prosperity has many friends, even adversity has a few friends, but originality practicing the realit...
ANUJ SOMANY
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
HORACE
A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity a...
RUCKETT
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing ...
JAMES RESTON
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundr...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is advers...
PLUTARCH
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
BRIGHAM YOUNG
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON, SR.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
It hurts, but then, what doesn't? Pain proves that we're alive, gives us the ability to appreciate p...
ANN AGUIRRE
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
PLINY THE ELDER
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
VICTOR HUGO
Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great
ROSE F. KENNEDY
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity
PERIANDER
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
PERIANDER
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
ROSE KENNEDY
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
ARISTOTLE
I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say f...
KIN HUBBARD
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperit...
SOCRATES
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity,...
SOCRATES
A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be over...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
CICERO
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieti...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigun...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA)
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxietie...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON, SR.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON
What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
SA'DI
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
ROSALIND RUSSELL
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity
MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
SAADI
A True education is an ornament in times of prosperity and it is a refuge in times of adversity. –...
ARISTOTLE
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Prosperity is full of friends.
EURIPIDES
When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adve...
SENECA
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
In Prosperity, we forget God but in Adversity we know Him!
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes...
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
FRANCIS BACON, SR.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
SAADI
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes
FRANCIS BACON, SR.
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
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
JAMES BURGH
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
FRANCIS BACON
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age
LACTANTIUS
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue
FRANCIS BACON SR.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
ARISTOTLE
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to ...
SENECA
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
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
SENECA
God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is advers...
PLUTARCH
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
CHILO
Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.
JOSEPH SMITH JR.
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...
WASHINGTON IRVING
She was a weak woman - too highly elated in prosperity, too easily depressed by adversity - not cons...
SARAH J. HALE
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in advers...
PLUTARCH
Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES
It is our triumph, in the face of adversity; that makes us the special beings, that we truly are.
ENRIQUE VEGA
With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
BIBLE
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
KING SOLOMON
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity t...
WASHINGTON IRVING
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity ta...
WASHINGTON IRVING
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance...
QUENTIN BLAKE
Friends are proved by adversity.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
It just proves that you can't tell who's on drugs until you test them.
DICK TODD
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
WALTER ANNENBERG

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