“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1823), Canto XII, stanza 50

About Lord Byron

1788 – 1824

English Romantic poet, author of 'Don Juan' and 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'.

“When we think we lead, we are most led.”

“I am not now that which I have been.”

“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!”

“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”

“Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.”

“When you know better, you do better.”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”