Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
FRANCIS BACONMan prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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