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Francis Bacon
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“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
— Francis Bacon
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“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.”
— Francis Bacon
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“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
— Francis Bacon
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“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
— Francis Bacon
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“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
— Francis Bacon
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“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
— Francis Bacon
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“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”
— Francis Bacon
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“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.”
— Francis Bacon
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“The worst men often give the best advice.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
— Francis Bacon
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“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.”
— Francis Bacon
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“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”
— Francis Bacon
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