See also: Wealth
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
The Bible, Ecclesiastes 7:14 kjv
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
For a hundred that can bear adversity there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.
Thomas Carlyle
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
William Gurnall
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
It is prosperity that we cannot endure.
Martin Luther
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible in the nature of things for any revival of religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches.
John Wesley