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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.”— Francis Bacon
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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