Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACONThere are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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