— SEE ALSO PROBLEMS Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. —FRANCIS BACON, Essays Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. —CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon It is difficulties that show what men are. —EPICTETUS, Discourses The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it. —OLIVER