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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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"Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light."
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Personal Development
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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Personal Development
"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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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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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"Fire tries gold misery tries brave men."
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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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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"Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir."
Power
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
Adaptation
"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
Resentment
"When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad."
Man
"A bad peace is even worse than war."
Peace
"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
Virtue
"When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing."
Woman
"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."
Wealth
"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
Truth
"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."
Desire
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