In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

One who was abhorred by all in prosperity is adored by all in adversity.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.