Sophocles - Victor Hugo - William Shakespeare - Star Trek TV - Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Richard Nixon - Calvin Coolidge - Aeschylus - John Churton Collins - Herbert Hoover -
Without labour nothing prospers. Sophocles
Adversity makes men and prosperity makes monsters. Victor Hugo
So now prosperity begins to mellow. William Shakespeare, Richard III IV iv 1, Queen Margaret
Live and be prosperous. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet V iii 42, Romeo to Balthasar
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Live long and prosper. Star Trek series, Spock
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Prosperity fosters bad tempers. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I say, why can’t we have prosperity built on peace rather than prosperity built on war? Richard Nixon
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. Aeschylus
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. John Churton Collins
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. Herbert Hoover