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Francis Bacon

Society
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
4.9 · 9 votes · 0 reads
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Virtues
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
3.8 · 48 votes · 74 reads
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Thought and Reason
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
4.7 · 61 votes · 116 reads
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Countries
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
3.3 · 57 votes · 155 reads
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Society
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
4.7 · 27 votes · 70 reads
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Virtues
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
3.2 · 51 votes · 69 reads
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Society
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
4.1 · 52 votes · 57 reads
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Various
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
4.7 · 24 votes · 87 reads
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Feelings
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
3.5 · 11 votes · 138 reads
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Virtues
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
3.0 · 63 votes · 26 reads
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Various
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
3.0 · 17 votes · 43 reads
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Virtues
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
3.6 · 58 votes · 95 reads
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Virtues
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
3.6 · 20 votes · 172 reads
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Virtues
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
4.5 · 35 votes · 122 reads
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Virtues
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
3.5 · 25 votes · 65 reads
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Thought and Reason
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
3.4 · 31 votes · 130 reads
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Thought and Reason
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
4.6 · 6 votes · 113 reads
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Virtues
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
3.6 · 16 votes · 61 reads
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Various
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
3.6 · 44 votes · 6 reads
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Various
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
4.0 · 34 votes · 145 reads
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Feelings
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
4.3 · 8 votes · 153 reads
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Society
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
5.0 · 45 votes · 68 reads
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Time
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
4.2 · 58 votes · 135 reads
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Time
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.
3.7 · 15 votes · 43 reads
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