Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACONNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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