The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''

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

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose

For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour o