Skip to content

Adversity Quote by Aristotle

“Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend…” quote by Aristotle — Download Open image

“Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Adversity Body Friendship Inspiration Prosperity Soul True friend True friend is Trying Two Wealth

More by Aristotle

The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…

Image

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

Image

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

Image

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

Image

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…

Image

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…

Image

All men by nature desire to know.

Image

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Image

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…

Image

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Image

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

Image

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Image

Explore all 1,545 Aristotle quotes

More Adversity quotes

We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

Image

When we have public success we also have private struggles.

Image

“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was…

George Friedman

Image

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Image

“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,…

Image

“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.”

Image

“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She…

Image

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham Kennedy

Image

Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

Image

“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at…

Image

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

“Life is not about less mistakes but about more trials”

Image

Browse all 4,827 Adversity quotes