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The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy. But then let a man take heed that the revenge be such as there is no law to punish; else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and is two for one.
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
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God grant that we may contend with other churches as the vine with the olive, which of us shall bear the best fruit; but not as the brier with the thistle, which of us shall be most unprofitable.
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The desire of power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man nor angels come into danger by it.
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That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express.
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The vine produces more grapes when it is young, but better grapes for wine when it is old, because its juices are more perfectly concocted.
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches; for they despise them that despair of them; and none are worse when they come to them. Be not penny-wise; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou may'st get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them.
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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pan;" which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him.
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Death…openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
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Houses are built to live in and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
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It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.
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To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so often over and over again.
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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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I will say positively and resolutely that is it impossible an elective monarchy should be so free and absolute as an hereditary.
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The road to true philosophy is precisely the same with that which leads to true religion; and from both the one and the other, unless we would enter in as little children, we must expect to be totally excluded.
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Suspicions among thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly to twilight; they are to be repressed, or, at least, well guarded, for they cloud the mind.
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Augustus Caesar would say, that he wondered that Alexander feared he should want work, having no more [worlds] to conquer: as if it were not as hard a matter to keep as to conquer.
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It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements, — as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
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Born:
January 22, 1561
Died:
April 9, 1626
(aged 65)
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.
Known for:
Novum Organum (1620)
Essays (1597)
New Atlantis (1624)
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
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