"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
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"Morality begins at the point of a gun."
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"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become."
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"It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue."
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"People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity."
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
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"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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"A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows."
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"The will must be stronger than the skill."
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"There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out."
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"Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail."
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"Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial."
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"In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune."
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"It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity."
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"A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat."
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"I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known."
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"Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist."
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this."
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"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."
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"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
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