Quote #78
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
More from Francis Bacon
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
- Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
- Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
- The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.
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- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.…
- It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, 'It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.'
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.