Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

One who was abhorred by all in prosperity is adored by all in adversity.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered.