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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis B

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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Generosity
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Francis Bacon
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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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Virtue
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Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses. – Francis Bacon

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Age
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Success & Failure
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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us. – Dr. Marcus Bach

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Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do. – John R. Amos

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Success & Failure

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. – Aristotle

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Success & Failure

If at first you dont succeed; you are running about average. – M. H. Alderson

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Form follows function. – Louis Sullivan

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