The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
FRANCIS BACONThe less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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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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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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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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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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