Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
FRANCIS BACONChampagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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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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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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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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