“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
“Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbor give
To more virtue than doth live.”
CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams
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