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Tacitus

"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."

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"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."

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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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"Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person's inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living."

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"For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy."

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"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."

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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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"Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional."

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

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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."

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"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."

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"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."

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