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Tacitus: Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue: it is less difficult to bear…

Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue: it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

In today’s wordsProsperity is the test of virtue: it's easier to bear misfortune than to stay uncorrupted by pleasure.

TacitusCommonly attributed
Source
From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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