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• Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste
  and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. -- 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 the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
  -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes vii, 14...
• 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...
• If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxiv, 10...