
“A prosperidade prontamente descobre o vício; mas a adversidade logo descobre a virtude.”
for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
"Essays Civil and Moral, item V - Of Adversity" in: "The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England" - Vol. I Página 14 http://books.google.com/books?id=qaORkIXGnmMC&pg=PA14, de Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Publicado por A. Hart, late Carey & Hart, 1852