Francis Bacon Prosperity Quotations

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.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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."