Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
FRANCIS BACONFor friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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