# Quote — Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

> Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

- Author: [Samuel Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler.md)
- Book: [The Way of All Flesh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(novelist)#The_Way_of_All_Flesh_(1903)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh/adversity-if-a-man

## More from this book

> A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh/a-mans-friendships.md)

> Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been undergone in the streets leading from St George's, Hanover Square, than in the condemned cells of Newgate.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh/taking-numbers-into.md)

> Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh/every-mans-work.md)