Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACONThe only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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