Search in folklore: adversity

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When you're enjoying prosperity, be wary of adversity.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about prosperity

You need to first experience adversity, before you can handle high praise.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about experience, praise, need

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverbs and old sayings about prosperity

Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about moral

No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun. Tenacity and adversity are old foes.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sun, old, olderness

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about spring, shadow, happiness, rain

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

Proverbs and old sayings English about prosperity

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.

Proverbs and old sayings French about medicine

In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty, In time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about prosperity, time

He that considers in prosperity; will be less afflicted in adversity.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about prosperity