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| Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. (Herbert George Wells) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. (Unknown) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. (Harry Truman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. (Publilius Syrus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. (Bion) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made (Sophocles) | [▲] | [▼] |
| One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. (Sophocles) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. (Matthew 6:34) (Bible) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Sweet are the uses of adversit (William Shakespeare) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 7's sweet milk, philosophy. (William Shakespeare) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck du (Seneca) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. (Seneca) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. (Seneca) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. (Sir Walter Scott) | [▲] | [▼] |
| To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to kn (Jean J. Rousseau) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you? (Quran) | [▲] | [▼] |
| With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. (Pliny the Elder) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The drowning man is not troubled by ra (Persian Proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortun (Aesop) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. (Harriet Ward Beecher) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. (James Russell Lowell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The nearer the dawn the darker the night. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. (Titus Livius) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters. (Victor Hugo) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. (Francis Bacon) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. (Francis Bacon) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. (Bishop Horne) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. (Horace) | [▲] | [▼] |