04/18/07
Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.
-- Welsh proverb
04/16/07
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
04/13/07
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue.
-- Johann Friedrich von Schiller
04/11/07
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
04/09/07
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
-- Seneca
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