Quote of Francis Bacon - Prosperity doth best discover vice, but...

Biography - Francis Bacon:

English philosopher and statesman.
Born: 1561 - Died: 1626
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

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

Francis Bacon - Essays

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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."

Quote source: Essays

Wikisource - Essays of Francis Bacon (en)

Translation

(French, German)

La prospérité découvre nos vices et l'adversité nos vertus.

Francis Bacon - Essais

Im Glück offenbart sich am stärksten das Laster, im Unglück aber die Tugend.

Francis Bacon - Essays

Quotes for: vice

From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

Ingratitude is the mother of all vice.

Jean de La Fontaine - Tales and Novellas in Verse /

There is only one vice of which no-one boasts - ingratitude.

Gérard de Nerval - Paradoxe et vérité /

Yet it is better to accept public morals and human vices calmly without bursting into either laughter or tears.

Seneca - On Tranquility of the Mind /

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire - Candide ou l'Optimisme /

O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven /

The virtues lose themselves in interest as the rivers are lost in the sea.

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