Tag: Francis Bacon
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
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Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.
Francis Bacon
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon