Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis Bacon - Quotesmemo.com

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Stability is when the U. K. and U. S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

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Francis Bacon

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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