Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Don Juan, 1821
Canto the Twelfth
Don Juan, 1821
Canto the Twelfth
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.