A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.