Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACONBegin 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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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