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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they a

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

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Francis Bacon

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 24 – Bible

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