Adversity Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those…

— Baruch Spinoza

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

— Anonymous

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men are more easy to repay you with injury then with benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

— The 48 Laws Of Power

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

— Charles Dickens

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

— Aeschylus

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of…

— Henry Fielding

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

— Cyrus the Great

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

— Walter Savage Landor

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld