Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACONSilence is the virtue of fools.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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 order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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