“ 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. ”
Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon (1597). copy citation
Author | Francis Bacon |
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Source | The Essays of Francis Bacon |
Topic | virtue vice adversity prosperity |
Date | 1597 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/575/575-h/575-h.htm |