Quote by Francis Bacon
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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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Virtue is its own revenge. – E.Y. Harburn

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Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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Modesty and unselfishness – these are virtues which men praise – and pass by. – André Maurois, Ariel, 1924

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