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• Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great. -- Pliny the Younge
• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -- Victor Marie Hugo
• Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. -- Horace (65-8 B.C.)
• Take care to be an economist in prosperity; there is no fear of your not being one in adversity.
  -- Zimmerma...
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Publilius Syru
• In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
  English Proverb...
• Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste
  and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
  -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes vii, 14...