Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Adversity

• optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Fall, Adversity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

• That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Adversity, Privilege

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.22, University of Georgia Press

• CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Strong, Adversity, Animal

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.38, 谷月社

• When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Adversity, Evil, Fool

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1220, Delphi Classics

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