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adversity

«If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.»
«If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn»
«If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.»
«For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.»
«In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends»
«In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.»
«God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless»
«Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: adversity, brave, gold, tried
«Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.»
«He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.»

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