"In the adversities of our best friends," wrote La Rochefoucauld, "we always find something which is not displeasing to us".
"Even through all the adversities and the negative sides to the story, it didn't matter to him.
Even as the nation rebounds from the recession, its lingering effects are reflected in the adversities facing families.
The winner of this match could well be the side that copes better with the adversities of the Europa League.
Whatever the adversities may be, I intend to continue to document in real time from the actual mountain.
For children in asylum seeking families who are detained on Christmas Island and will be moved to Nauru or Manus, the adversities are cumulative.
"The adversities of the past two years, as difficult as they were, embedded a healthy respect and humility for how difficult the process is," Presti said.
My next entry will hopefully tell the story of a fantastic summit experience and the adversities we overcame to achieve it.
Pammie led a courageous life choosing to turn the adversities of Cystic Fibrosis into the gift of appreciating every moment of every day.
It is probably closer to the mark to say that he never developed it sufficiently, nor succeeded in converting enough of his party, to make it robust when confronted by all the adversities and events that hit a leader.
With his sweet melancholy, hopeless ambition for a better version of himself and infinite tolerance of the adversities of existence, he is a figure who encompasses all humanity - comic, tragic, innocent, romantic, idiosyncratic.
