Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACONIf money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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