Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
HoraceCruella: 'Congratulations. You three have just won the Gold, Silver and Bronze in the Morons-Olympics!'
Horace: 'Who won the Gold?'
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words." Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses and caustic iambic poetry.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
HoraceCruella: 'Congratulations. You three have just won the Gold, Silver and Bronze in the Morons-Olympics!'
Horace: 'Who won the Gold?'