The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
FRANCIS BACONAge 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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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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 remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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