Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; Adversity is not without many comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
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