"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."

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"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."

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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Swedish Businessman

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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."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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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."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

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"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."

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"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."

Fear

"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."

Strength

"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."

Thought

"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."

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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

Flattery

"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."

Integrity

"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."

Silence

"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."

Fool

"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

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