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The remedy is worse than the disease.

Francis Bacon

For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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Company Love Philosophy Talk
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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God Philosophy Solitude
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Believe Philosophy Reading Talk
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Deep Doubt Excitement Philosophy Study
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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Age Best Burn Deep Friendship Old Philosophy Trust Wine
For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Book Deep Friendship Good True
There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Deep Light Philosophy Reflection Way
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Book Eat Taste
Silence is the virtue of fools.
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One Liner Silence Virtue
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Beginning Deep Doubt End Man Philosophy
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Deep Hard Speak Truth
Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Real Wine
I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Age Man Myself Old Philosophy
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Command Nature One Liner
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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One Liner Wisdom
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Believe Man One Liner True

The remedy is worse than the disease.

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