Prosperity-Adversity

There is no success without hardship. (Sophocles)

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. (Euripides)

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. (Virginia Woolf)

He that has never suffered extreme adversity, knows not the full extent of his own depravation. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. (Emerson)

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. (Ben Jonson)

One who was abhorred by all in prosperity is adored by all in adversity. (Baltasar Gracian)

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. (William Hazlitt)

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune. (E B White)

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. (Rousseau)