“Prosperity proves men to be fortunate, while it is adversity which makes them great.”
Secunda felices, adversa magnos probent.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
XXXI.
Panegyricus
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
Maxim 872
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
John Churton Collins (1848–1908) British literary critic
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Nam et secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Section 22
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“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
“It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
(Often shortened to "can't stand prosperity" as an unknown quote).
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospère et s'aigrit dans l'adversité.
Variant translations: Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.
Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Books II-VI, II
“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Adversity
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Thomas Robert Malthus Principles of Political Economy
Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section X, p. 437
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)