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• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
  -- Sir 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...
• In prosperity, caution; in adversity, patience.
• Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great. -- Pliny the Younge
• It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Just as a diamond is not polished without friction, a great man is not made without adversity.
  -- Confucius Say...
• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -- Victor Marie Hugo