Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Horace

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1063 Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
1005 And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
1078 Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
1013 We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
1129 There is measure in all things.

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