"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

Adversity, Circumstances, Effect

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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."

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

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

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

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

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

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

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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."

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