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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Francis Bacon
Adversity, Vices, Prosperity

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon
Christian, Photography, Adversity

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.

Francis Bacon
Adversity, Vices, Odor
Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Francis Bacon
War, Adversity, Conflict
1625 Essays, no.5,'Of Adversity'.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon
Adversity, Blessing, Christian Inspirational
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

Francis Bacon
Trust, Betrayal, Adversity
Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.476

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."

Francis Bacon
Adversity, Speech, Prosperity
Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.306

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