Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACONThe monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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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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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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