Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Quotations by Francis Bacon

Other quotes and quotations :

• Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. Francis Bacon
• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. Francis Bacon
• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. Francis Bacon
• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. Arthur Hugh Clough
• That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Anatole France
• It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them. Proverb
• Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. Chilo
• Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. Pliny The Elder
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. Publilius Syrus