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"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
Motivation
"Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief."
Grief
"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."
Time
"A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it."
Morality
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
Behavior
"Speech is the index of the mind."
Expression
"Whom they have injured they also hate."
Behavior
"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."
Courage
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
Care
"Do everything as in the eye of another."
Behavior
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