Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.
In plain words
You find out who is toughest only once things get hard.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Analects, Book IX, Chapter 28 -- the pine-and-cypress steadfastness metaphor; Wikiquote sourced Analects section.
