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Francis Bacon
: Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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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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Sir Francis Bacon :
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Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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James Burgh :
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In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
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Plutarch :
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity.
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Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
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Kin Hubbard :
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I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld :
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
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Francois de Fenelon :
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Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
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Henry Fielding :
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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior.
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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
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