Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
FRANCIS BACONSilence is the virtue of fools.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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