It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACONThere is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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