In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
FRANCIS BACONThe worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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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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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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