Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Virtue is harmony.
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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