Prosperity makes few friends. [ Vauvenargues ]

Prosperity lets go the bridle. [ George Herbert ]

Prosperity has every thing cheap. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity's the very bond of love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Prosperity is the very bond of love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Prosperity often presages adversity. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Prosperity forgets father and mother. [ Spanish Proverb ]

But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Sifting Of Peter ]

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity. [ Beecher ]

Adversity oftentimes leads to prosperity. [ Proverb ]

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity. [ Plautus ]

Misfortune, like a creditor severe.
But rises in demand for her delay;
She makes a scourge of past prosperity
To sting thee more and double thy distress. [ Young ]

Prosperity knows not the worth of patience. [ Proverb ]

Affliction is the good man's shining scene;
Prosperity conceals his brightest ray,
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. [ Young ]

Moderation in prosperity argues a great mind. [ Proverb ]

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty,
In times of adversity not one in twenty. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. [ Vauvenargues ]

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity. [ Rousseau ]

Prosperity and vanity are often lodged together. [ Proverb ]

It is no easy matter to bear prosperity decently. [ Proverb ]

Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adversity. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [ Seneca ]

Prosperity destroys fools, and endangers the wise. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity takes no counsel and fears no calamity. [ Proverb ]

Adversity is easier borne, than prosperity forgot. [ Proverb ]

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. [ Victor Hugo ]

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. [ Pliny the Younger ]

He that swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity often best discovers vices, and adversity virtue. [ Proverb ]

To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it. [ William Austin ]

Prosperity gets followers, but adversity distinguishes them. [ Proverb ]

Great spirits are easy in prosperity and quiet in adversity. [ Proverb ]

Death is bitter to a man in prosperity, or in much business. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity unmasks the vices; adversity reveals the virtues. [ Diderot ]

I wish you all sorts of prosperity, with a little more taste. [ Le Sage ]

Be the same to your friends, both in prosperity and adversity. [ Periander ]

Prosperity has damned more souls than all the devils together. [ Proverb ]

Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other. [ Ben. Franklin ]

He that considers in prosperity will be less afflicted in adversity. [ Proverb ]

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit. [ C. D. Warner ]

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. [ Cicero ]

Acquaintances are best formed in prosperity; friendships in adversity. [ T. A. Emmett ]

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [ Cicero ]

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. [ Plutarch ]

Prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue. [ Bacon ]

Prosperity is often an equivocal word denoting merely affluence of possession. [ Blair ]

It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. [ J. L. Basford ]

In adversity those talents are called forth, which are concealed by prosperity. [ Horace ]

O how portentous is prosperity! How, comet-like, it threatens, while it shines! [ Young ]

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. [ Seneca ]

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. [ Hosea Ballou ]

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [ Cicero ]

No man has a prosperity so high and firm but two or three words can dishearten it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity. [ Burke ]

In time of affliction, a vow; in the time of prosperity, an increase of wickedness. [ Hebrew Proverb ]

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. [ Lactantius ]

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult. [ Epictetus ]

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. [ Webster ]

When reduced by adversity, a man forgets the lofty tone and supercilious language of prosperity.

The hand of diligence defeateth want; prosperity and success are the industrious man's attendants. [ R. Dodsley ]

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. [ Southey ]

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labor Lost ]

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. [ Bacon ]

While you are prosperous, you can number many friends; but when the storm comes, you are left alone. [ Ovid ]

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. [ Theophrastus ]

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend: but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things. [ Epictetus ]

The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts is proportioned to that of the public prosperity. [ T. B. Macaulay ]

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates. [ Ovid ]

The true prosperity and greatness of a nation is to be found in the elevation and education of its laborers. [ U. S. Grant ]

As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. [ La Bruyere ]

Be sure to preserve an unruffled mind in adversity, as well as one restrained from immoderate joy in prosperity. [ Horace ]

The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and of keeping within due bounds when elated by prosperity. [ Virgil ]

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous. He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [ Seneca ]

Friendship throws a greater luster on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and anxieties. [ Cicero ]

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness. [ Confucius ]

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. [ Hazlitt ]

No man beholdeth prosperity who doth not encounter danger; but having encountered danger, if he surviveth, he beholdeth it. [ Hitopadesa ]

Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. [ Tacitus ]

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment. [ Landor ]

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

To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own. [ Thomas Edwards ]

Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man. [ Hooker ]

A summer friendship, whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in our prosperity, with the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity. [ Massinger ]

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. [ Seneca ]

To speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroic virtue. [ Bacon ]

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear. [ Hosea Ballou ]

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in. [ Beecher ]

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change. [ Pope ]

Leave a friend! So base I am not. I followed him in his prosperity, when the skies were clear and shining, and will not leave him when storms begin to rise. [ Metastasio ]

A weak mind sinks under prosperity as well as under adversity. A strong and deep one has two highest tides, when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. [ Hare ]

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour. [ Bacon ]

Many are not able to suffer and endure prosperity; it is like the light of the sun to a weak eye, - glorious indeed in itself, but not proportioned to such an instrument. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

When I beheld human affairs involved in such dense darkness, the guilty exulting in their prosperity, and pious men suffering wrong, what religion I had began to reel backward and fall. [ Claudius, Claudian ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported by the latter. [ Fielding ]

It is in the relaxation of security, it is in the expansion of prosperity, it is in the hour of dilation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure that the real character of men is discerned. [ Burke ]

These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]

From the year 1789 to the year 1860 no nation has ever known a more unbounded prosperity, a fuller space of happiness. In the short space of seventy years, within the turn of a single life, the nation, poor, weak and despised, raised itself to the pinnacle of power and of glory. [ Robert C. Winthrop ]

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate, depend upon books. [ Richard Aungervyle ]

Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasn: Nourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne, and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]