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• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste
  and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Beauty
• Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot la
  and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance...
• Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best serva
  but not always best subjects. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Silence is the virtue of fools. -- Francis Baco