When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said: Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone.
Plutarch
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress; and then becomes more bright and c
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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