Adversity
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. Mark Twain
Adversity is the first path to truth Lord Byron
Look at a man in the midst of doubt and danger, and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is. It is then that true utterances are wrung from the recesses of the breast. The mask is torn off; the reality remains. Lucretius
Adversity stretcheth our days Sir Thomas Browne
Adversity is the midwife of genius Napoleon