You May Also Like / View all maxioms
In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent to read more
In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent to ease us,
Points out some circumstance to please us.
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...
Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the read more
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen
writer to be a spectacle on which the read more
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen
writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with
pleasure.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.
