Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACONThe remedy is worse than the disease.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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