Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue.
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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.
Francis Bacon in Of Adversity
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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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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
quote by Elvis Presley
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
quote by G.K. Chesterton
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Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.
quote by Kin Hubbard
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Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
quote by King Solomon
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
He that considers in prosperity; will be less afflicted in adversity.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
quote by Publilius Syrus
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We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
Prosperity gets followers, but adversity distinguishes them.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
When you're enjoying prosperity, be wary of adversity.
In time of prosperity consider how you will bear adversity.