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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis Bacon
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Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon -
Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
Francis Bacon -
It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
Francis Bacon -
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
Francis Bacon -
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon -
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.
Francis Bacon -
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
Francis Bacon -
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Francis Bacon -
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon -
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon
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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.
Francis Bacon -
Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt
Francis Bacon -
To know truly is to know by causes.
Francis Bacon -
The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon -
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon -
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
Francis Bacon
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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.
Francis Bacon -
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon