For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACONBooks must follow sciences and not sciences books.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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