Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
John Milton
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Lee Iacocca
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
Vauvenargues
Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
Dean Koontz
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
Caroline Kennedy
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue.
Friedrich von Schiller
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus