Adversity Quote by Francis Bacon

“Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover…

— Francis Bacon

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

— Francis Bacon

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

— Baroness Orczy

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

— Plato

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

— Joseph Joubert

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

— Socrates

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that…

— Aristotle

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

— Anonymous