Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACONTruth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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