Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACONThe remedy is worse than the disease.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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