In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.

- Titus Livius

Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters.

- Victor Hugo

As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

- Jean La Bruyere

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

- Francis Bacon

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

- Victor Hugo

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.

- Bishop Horne

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

- Francis Bacon

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.

- Hindu Proverbs

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

- Horace

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

- Horace

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

- William Hazlitt

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

- Heraclitus

A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity.

- Frederick Ferre

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

- Euripides

Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm.

- Euripides

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

- Epicurus

In misfortune, what friend remains a friend?

- Euripides

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

- Epictetus

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

- Epictetus

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson