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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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    1625 Essays, no.5,'Of Adversity'.

  • 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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    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

  • 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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    'Essays' (1625) 'Of 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.

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

  • Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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Francis Bacon

  • Born: January 22, 1561
  • Died: April 9, 1626
  • Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor
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