Tag: Francis Bacon
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon
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It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
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It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
Francis Bacon