"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.” ~ Euripedes

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.” ~ Voltaire

“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do" ~ Voltaire

“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.” ~ Voltaire

“Don't pray for easy lives, but to be stronger men." ~ John F. Kennedy

""Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." ~ Kahlil Gibran

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings." ~ Hellen Keller

""If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." Nietzsche