Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACONThe monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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