Washington Irving book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"The Wife".
Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
— Horace
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Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BCRelated quotes
“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
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
Context: The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) Anglo-American poet
14.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 371
“In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.”
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) British minister and poet
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 7.
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 872
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“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