Francis Bacon Quotes About Prosperity
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Francis Bacon
- Born: January 22, 1561
- Died: April 9, 1626
- Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor