Francis Bacon Prosper Quotations

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."

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.