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• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 872
• Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great. -- Pliny the Younge
• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -- Victor Marie Hugo
• In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
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• No one knows what he can do till he tries. -- Publilius Syru
• In prosperity, caution; in adversity, patience.
• In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
  -- James Howell, Proverb...
• No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity
  he greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted....
• A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. -- Publilius Syru