Adversity

1. “Better be wise by misfortune of others than by your own.” [AESOP , “ The Lion, the Ass and the Fox Hunting” Fables (6th c B.C.)]



2. “ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in feeling them the cowardice of the heart.” [ PIETRO ARETNO , letter to the King of France, April 25 (1525)]



3. “The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.” [ ARISTOTLE, Nicomachian Ethics ( 4th c B.C.)]



4. “Calamity is man’s true touchstone.” [ BEAMOND and FLETCHER, Four Plays in One. The Triumph of Hpnour (1647)]



5. “Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.” [ BIBLE , (Job 5:7)]



6. “To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.” [ BION (2nd Cb.c.), ‘quoted in Diogenes Laertius.” Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (3rd c B.C.)]



7. “ In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.” [ BOETHIUS, The Consolation of Philosophy (3rd. c B.C.)]



8. “Affliction smarts most in the most happy state.” [ SIR THOMAS BROWN, C HRISTIAN Morals (1718) ]



9. “Affliction smarts most in the most happy state.” [ SIR THOMAS BROWN, C HRISTIAN Morals (1718) ]

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