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Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.


- Francis Bacon









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- Francis Bacon



He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

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Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

- Francis Bacon



Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Anonymous



Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

- Herbert George Wells



Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

- Publilius Syrus



If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

- Harry Truman



It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made

- Sophocles



To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

- Bion



One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

- Sophocles



Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Bible



Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare



Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare