Francis Bacon Adversity Quotations

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

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

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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

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."

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.