The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
FRANCIS BACONFor a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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