The remedy is worse than the disease.
FRANCIS BACONAge appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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